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The Long Night

CHAPTER IV
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I cannot.

A wilder filly was never handled." "So! And yet I tamed her.

And she suffers you! She's sport for us within bounds.

Yet do you think she likes it when you paw her hand or lay your dirty arm about her waist, or steal a kiss?
Think you the blood mounts and ebbs for nothing?
Or the tears rise and the lip trembles and the limbs shake for sheer pleasure.

I tell you, if eyes could slay, you had breathed your last some weeks ago." "I know," Grio answered, nodding thoughtfully.


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