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‘You do not deserve this,’ he said.

‘Who can say what I deserve or not?’ I said. ‘I’ve done nothing; but that may be sufficient reason for condemning me.’

‘You disobeyed him,’ he said. ‘That is sufficient reason for him to punish you.’

‘I only did what he knew I would.’

‘Like Eve,’ he said.

from The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (via vega-ofthe-lyre)

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