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When I was serving dinner on the following day Wanda said: "Bring another cover, I want you to dine with me today," and when I was about to sit down opposite her, she added, "No, over here, close by ives me soup with her spoon, feeds me with her fork, and places her head on the table like a playful kitten and flirts withat Haydee, who serves in er than is necessary It is only now that I noticed her noble, alnificent statuesque bust, which is as if hewn out of black rinning, shows her teeth She has hardly left the rooe

"What, you dare to look at another woman besides me! Perhaps you like her even better than you do htened; I have never seen her like this before; she is suddenly pale even to the lips and her whole body trembles Venus in Furs is jealous of her slave She snatches the whip from its hook and strikes me in the face; then she calls her black servants, who bind me, and carry me down into the cellar, where they throw me into a dark, dank, subterranean compartment, a veritable prison-cell

Then the lock of the door clicks, the bolts are drawn, a key sings in the lock I a here for I don't kno long, bound like a calf about to be hauled to the slaughter, on a bundle of daht, without food, without drink, without sleep It would be like her to let me starve to death, if I don't freeze to death before then I a to hate this woman

A red streak, like blood, floods across the floor; it is a light falling through the door which is now thrust open

Wanda appears on the threshold, wrapped in her sables, holding a lighted torch

"Are you still alive?" she asks

"Are you co to kill me?" I reply with a low, hoarse voice

With two rapid strides Wanda reaches my side, she kneels down beside low so, do you love me? I want you to love me"