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| 23 | 25 | View more quotes about though">Though I had hated Vika of Treve I would not have wanted this fate to be hers, nor could I believe that any man, even those whom she had injured, could have wished it to be so. |
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| 23 | 22 | Because of the lack of coldness in the body I listened for a long time for a heartbeat. |
| 23 | 23 | Holding her wrist I felt for the slightest sign of a pulse. |
| 23 | 24 | I could detect neither heartbeat nor pulse. |
| 23 | 25 | Though I had hated Vika of Treve I would not have wanted this fate to be hers, nor could I believe that any man, even those whom she had injured, could have wished it to be so. |
| 23 | 26 | As I looked upon her now I felt strangely sad, and there was nothing left in my bosom of the bitterness with which I had earlier regarded her. |
| 23 | 27 | I saw her now as only a girl, surely too innocent for this, who had met the Golden Beetle and had in consequence died one of the most horrible of deaths. |
| 23 | 28 | She was of the human kind and whatever might have been her faults, she could not have deserved this grotesque, macabre fate, the jaws and cavern of the Golden Beetle. |