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| 42 | 162 | "By your own testimony the View more quotes about female">female is a contrivance, a biological artifact, a monster, and is doubtless, in her own way, as hideous, as gross and repulsive, as my dear friend, Lord Grendel, himself. |
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| 42 | 159 | "I do not know, Mistress," I said. |
| 42 | 160 | "And how, I wonder," she asked, "might they think to influence Lord Grendel, to encourage him to accede to their wishes?" "By means of the female, Mistress," I said. |
| 42 | 161 | "Absurd," she said. |
| 42 | 162 | "By your own testimony the female is a contrivance, a biological artifact, a monster, and is doubtless, in her own way, as hideous, as gross and repulsive, as my dear friend, Lord Grendel, himself. |
| 42 | 163 | It is preposterous to suppose she could produce any effect in him other than loathing and dismay. |
| 42 | 164 | Should these supposed enemies think otherwise they are as naive, and as unaccustomed to the byways of intrigue, as I suggested, as an ankle-roped slave. |
| 42 | 165 | Surely Lord Grendel, a creature of sensibility and taste, would be more likely, in disgust and rage, to destroy such an affront to nature than spare it. |