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| 42 | 165 | View more quotes about surely">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. |
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| 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. |
| 42 | 166 | He does not even regard his own image in reflective surfaces. |
| 42 | 167 | The existence of such a thing is a veritable reproach to him. |
| 42 | 168 | Who would dare to confront him with so painful a mockery? Would it not be most merciful to put such a horror out of its misery? Should it not beg to be terminated? What kindly fellow would deny it such a mercy? Should it not dash itself to pieces?" The beast crouched before the doorway to the kitchen had not moved. |