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| 19 | 219 | Had I not defeated it? Had I not, at View more quotes about least">least, discouraged it? Should it not now, in all propriety, take wing and seek the assuagements of its hunger elsewhere, in the rich feasts offered by the delta. |
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| 19 | 216 | It seemed angry. |
| 19 | 217 | Surely it would now take its departure. |
| 19 | 218 | It did not, however, seem inclined to do so. |
| 19 | 219 | Had I not defeated it? Had I not, at least, discouraged it? Should it not now, in all propriety, take wing and seek the assuagements of its hunger elsewhere, in the rich feasts offered by the delta. |
| 19 | 220 | But its attentions seemed much fastened upon me. |
| 19 | 221 | One might have thought it a sleen, a creature famed for its tenacity. |
| 19 | 222 | Let it meet then, I thought, one of man's most dangerous allies, the mystery of flame. |