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Blindly, agonizingly, Saed just out of his reach tore atwas real and not just a perforot to eat, to drink, to whisper to a partner

Delilah wore an even reen The jewels sparkled as if they were real dialasses, I saw to littering and shining enough to lend Delilah the appearance of wearing o Bart had blasted Cindy with his anger for wearing more than she did now

Flitting around the temple, Delilah hid herself behind a fake marble column Samson's outstretched hands pleaded for her help, even as the tenor screalanced at Bart He was leaning forward, watching with such intensity it see in the world interested hiony he'd wanted between brother and sister

Again I was filled with apprehension The air seeer

Higher and higher rose the pitch of the soprano Saoal-- the twin colu down the heathen temple

Overhead the giant obscene god grinnedof love made it a thousand times more painful

As Sa his way up the shallow steps, on the teony to see her lover so cruelly treated Several guards headed to capture her, and no doubt they would treat her as they had Sa her body low to the floor and just beneath the chains he lashed about so furiously Now she grabbed his ankle, looking up at hily It seemed he would beat her with his chains, but he hesitated, staring blindly doard before hisdark hair, to listen to words she mouthed but we couldn't hear

With calculated thought for drama, with renewed faith in his love and his God, Jory lifted his ar his biceps, and broke his chains!

The audience gasped at the passion Jory put into the act

He spun around wildly, lashing the separated chains that dangled fro blindly to strike, apparently, anyone Delilah juuards and one dwarf She et away a dance of such excitement everyone at the party was held in thrall, totally quiet as bit by bit, Delilah cleverly led her blind lover to the exact position he needed, between the two huge colu Saestures even as the song declared her undying love for him All meant to deceive the priests and the blood-thirsty crowd that wanted to see Samson dead

All around the arena people were leaning forward, straining to see the grace and beauty of one of the world's most famous premier danseurs

Jory was perfor himself up into a terrible frenzy before he finally put one hand on a fake marble pillar; and then with more dramatic import, he had the other braced, too

On the floor, Delilah kissed his feet before she mocked hi the heathen crohile he knew she truly loved hireed With heaving, i down the entire teainst the columns! The tenor's voice called upon God to help hiod

Again the soprano sang, tenderly seducing Sa he couldn't do the impossible

The last beseeching note died as with aonto his oiled body already streaked with red, he glistened in a ghastly way His blind white eyes shone