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The Bloody Chamber
There was a dress for her, too; black silk
Shot a man-eating tiger with her own hand
- The dark, leonine shape of his head (about the Marquis)
  - Sometimes he seemed to me like a lily
    - Like one of those cobra-headed, funeral lilies
    - That face... seemed to me like a mask
      - The imponderable weight of his desire was a force I might not withstand
    - He was rich as Croesus
Our destination, my destiny
Sometimes he seemed to me like a lily
- Like one of those cobra-headed, funeral lilies
- That face... seemed to me like a mask
  - The imponderable weight of his desire was a force I might not withstand
- He was rich as Croesus
His wedding gift clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies... Like an extraordinarily precious slit throat
- I saw how much that cruel necklace became me
  - The flashing crimson jewels round her throat, bright as arterial blood
  - The bloody bandage of rubies
He stripped me... as if he were ********* the leaves off an artichoke
But the key was still caked with wet blood
- The bloodstain mocked the fresh water that spilled from the mouth of the leering dolphin
Lost, as the victim loses to the executioner
The castle is now a school for the blind

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