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Today she suddenly took her hat and shawl, and I had to go shopping with her She looked at whips, long whips with a short handle, the kind that are used on dogs

"Are these satisfactory?" said the shopkeeper

"No, they are lance at , I suppose?" opined the merchant

"Yes," she exclaimed, "of the kind that are used in Russia for intractable slaves"

She looked further and finally selected a whip, at whose sight I felt a strange creeping sensation

"Now good-by, Severin," she said "I have so"

I left her and took a walk On the way back I saw Wanda co out at a furrier's She beckoned ood spirits, "I have never made a secret of how deeply your serious, drea this seriousenraptured at my feet, of course, stimulates me--but will this attraction last? Wo him aside"

"Very well then, kick me aside," I replied, "when you are tired of erous forces lie within one a few steps further "You awaken thee You kno to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors What would you say should I try my hand at them, and make you the first object of my experiments I would be like Dionysius who had the inventor of the iron ox roasted within it in order to see whether his wails and groans really rese of an ox

"Perhaps I am a female Dionysius?"

"Be it," I exclaiood or evil, choose The destiny that lies concealed within my breast drives me on--demoniacally--relentlessly"

"My Beloved, I do not care to see you to-day or to- the day after tomorrow, and then as my slave

Your mistress, Wanda"

"As my slave" was underlined I read the note which I received early in thea second time Then I had a donkey saddled, an animal symbolic of learned professors, and rode into the , with the ry, thirsty, and e my clothes, and a few moments later knock at her door