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| 13 | 842 | I had View more quotes about knelt">knelt there, wide-eyed, in disbelief. |
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| 13 | 839 | Only on the tenth stroke, which, before its delivery, he informed me was the last, did he let me glimpse even a particle of the strength with which a stroke, if he so chose, might be delivered. |
| 13 | 840 | I had screamed, so struck. |
| 13 | 841 | Then I had not even been able to scream. |
| 13 | 842 | I had knelt there, wide-eyed, in disbelief. |
| 13 | 843 | Then, an instant later, I had sunk to my belly. |
| 13 | 844 | "Mercy, Master!" I wept. |
| 13 | 845 | "Mercy, Master, please, mercy!" But the beating, of course, was done, for the tenth blow was the last. |