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Allan Quatermain

CHAPTER XVIII
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Is there any chance of some fighting here, Macumazahn ?' he went on in an insinuating voice.

'Methought that what I saw last night did show that the two great Queens were vexed one with another.

Else had the "Lady of the Night" not brought that dagger with her.' I agreed with him that it showed that more or less pique and irritation existed between the ladies, and told him how things stood, and that they were quarrelling over Incubu.
'Ah, is it so ?' he exclaimed, springing up in delight; 'then will there be war as surely as the rivers rise in the rains -- war to the end.

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

See thou, Macumazahn, a woman will swim through blood to her desire, and think nought of it.


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