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CHAPTER XIV—Containing the history of the breaking of the horse Devil, and relates the returning of
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There were in this strange nature, depths so awful and profound that it was not to be sounded or to be judged as others were. But one thing could have melted or caused the unconquerable spirit to bend, and this was the overwhelming passion of love—not a slight, tender feeling, but a great and powerful one, such as could be awakened1 but by a being of as strong and deep a nature as itself, one who was in all things its peer.
“I have been lonely—lonely all my life,” my Lady Dunstanwolde had once said to her sister, and she had indeed spoken a truth.
Even in her childhood she had felt in some strange way she stood apart from the world about her. Before she had been old enough to reason she had been conscious that she was stronger and had greater power and endurance than any human being about her. Her strength she used in these days in wilful3 tyranny, and indeed it was so used for many a day when she was older. The time had never been when an eye lighted on her with indifference4, or when she could not rule and punish as she willed. As an infant she had browbeaten5 the women-servants and the stable-boys and grooms6; but because of her quick wit and clever tongue, and also because no humour ever made her aught but a creature well worth looking at, they had taken her bullying8 in good-humour and loved her in their coarse way. She had tyrannised over her father and his companions, and they had adored and boasted of her; but there had not been one among them whom she could have turned to if a softer moment had come upon her and she had felt the need of a friend, nor indeed one whom she did not regard privately9 with contempt.
A god or goddess forced upon earth and surrounded by mere10 human beings would surely feel a
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desolateness
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gratitude
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kinsman
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demon
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plunge
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liking
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dealing
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wondrous
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daunting
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fretted
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anguish
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anguished
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lather
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foam
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vanquished
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shriek
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exclamation
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brute
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hoof
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defiance
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gaily
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desperately
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delirium
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loathing
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cupidity
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folly
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