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CHAPTER IX ISSUS, GODDESS OF LIFE ETERNAL
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The confession1 of love which the girl's fright had wrung2 from her touched me deeply; but it humiliated3 me as well, since I felt that in some thoughtless word or act I had given her reason to believe that I reciprocated5 her affection.
Never have I been much of a ladies' man, being more concerned with fighting and kindred arts which have ever seemed to me more befitting a man than mooning over a scented6 glove four sizes too small for him, or kissing a dead flower that has begun to smell like a cabbage. So I was quite at a loss as to what to do or say. A thousand times rather face the wild hordes7 of the dead sea bottoms than meet the eyes of this beautiful young girl and tell her the thing that I must tell her.
But there was nothing else to be done, and so I did it. Very clumsily too, I fear.
Gently I unclasped her hands from about my neck, and still holding them in mine I told her the story of my love for Dejah Thoris. That of all the women of two worlds that I had known and admired during my long life she alone had I loved.
The tale did not seem to please her. Like a tigress she sprang, panting, to her feet. Her beautiful face was distorted in an expression of horrible malevolence8. Her eyes fairly blazed into mine.
"Dog," she hissed9. "Dog of a blasphemer! Think you that Phaidor, daughter of Matai Shang, supplicates10? She commands. What to her is your puny11 outer world passion for the
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reciprocated
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glorified
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affront
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doom
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grovel
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boon
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generosity
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burnished
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amazement
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malicious
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spacious
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foes
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allotted
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分配,拨给,摊派( allot的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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isle
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hue
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irresistible
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supreme
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deity
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marrow
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bondage
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