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Starved Beast

Louez l'Eternel!

I was in turmoil. I was confused. What kind of beast was I riding? They say that the Almighty blesses the faithful and the righteous. They say that the humble fly comes to the spider and the beetles to the lizard and dear Jesus, I'd hoped and never doubted, not even once.

All this time, and now ... she'd come to me!

That's why Christine had seemed so familiar; the reason that from the very beginning I'd imagined her acquaintance!

She drew back from me when I dropped her. She fell to the ground - collapsing and coughing and spluttering and clutching her neck.

There were rows of pearls and pins fixing her hair, and a broach upon her dress. I saw delicate embroidery and red pearl slippers peeping and teasing me, weeks - perhaps months of painstaking work in each of them.

Dear, wonderful God, what wonders you perform!

Oh my!

She was the daughter of the Marquis de Lyons!

The Marquis!

The man who'd condemned me to this tomb and who'd decreed I should be eternally imprisoned
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