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The suppressed passion, rising and throbbing like a white flame in her

face and eyes,up

shein its quiet,

pitying tenderness that mesmerized her into calm, she steadily and

rapidly went on

"I awoke to a new life, after that; but not to one of freedouarded than ever; and I

found, when too late, that I had bartered myself, soul and body, for an

empty promise The only difference was, that I sawhis confederates and subordinates to the house,

and would have me dressed up and displayed to the else, if I were a painted

puppet or an overgroax doll Most of the precious crew of scoundrels

had wives of their own and these began to be brought with the, and , we had quite a carnival of it till

"I liked this part of the business excessively well at first, and I was

flattered and fooled to the top ofbelle and queen There was more policy in that than ad thely, and I was the dwarf's pet and plaything, and all-powerful

with him The hideous creature had a most hideous passion for er as easily as Delilah and Samson;

and by his command and their universal consent, the un, and I was n head, even over the

dwarf hi was always

taking such odd notions into his head, which nobody there dared laugh

at The band were bound together by a terrible oath, women and all; but

they had to take another oath then, that of allegiance to me

"It quite turned my brain at first; and eant, the sha, half-serious ho surface, and the blackness, and corruption,