[The Night Horseman by Max Brand]@TWC D-Link bookThe Night Horseman CHAPTER XXIV 22/26
These are the things which lead him.
These the forces which direct him.
You have loved him; but is love merely a giving? No, you have seen in him a man, but I see in him merely the animal force." She said after a moment: "Do you hate him--you plead against him so passionately ?" He answered: "Can you hate a thing which is not human? No, but you can dread it.
It escapes from the laws which bind you and which bind me. What standards govern it? How can you hope to win it? Love? What beauty is there in the world to appeal to such a creature except the beauty of the marrow-bone which his teeth have the strength to snap ?" "Ah, listen!" murmured the girl.
"Here is your answer!" And Doctor Randall Byrne heard a sound like the muted music of the violin, thin and small and wonderfully penetrating.
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