her in his grasp 
as a tiger his prey. 

* Woman, silence! Would to Grod you were 
of my , that I could wreak such vengeance 
on you as you should carry to the grave.' 

Her fierce and cruel eyes laughed into his in the 
dull gray twilight, with leering  over the 
 she caused. 

^ It is a  there are laws as inexorable on 
murder as on marriage! You would not be the 
first husband who killed his wife when he fell in 
wordnetdesire with another woman  ^ 

She stopped, stricken with sudden wordnetfear and wordnetfear, 
at the wordnetdesire she had stung, and tortured, into 
being. As the iron gripe of his hands clenched 
harder and harder upon her, for the first time it 
flashed upon her that she was in his power  ^the 
power of the man she had so bitterly wronged, 
and whom she had now goaded on to reckless 
fiiry and  ! She knew his fiery wordnetdesire  
she knew his lion-like strength  she knew his 
long and unavenged wrongs ; and she trembled, 
and shiveredj and turned pale in his relentless 
grasp, for she was in his hands, and had aroused a 
tempest she knew not how to allay. 

* Wretch, accursed ! if you tempt me to wash 



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out my wrongs, and slay you where you stand,