8/18 No girl of innocent beauty is safe from you. Your unclean mind is as incapable of believing in virtue, as you are helpless in the grip of your own insane lust." The man was stung to fury by her cutting words. "Take your ugly face out of my sight," he said brutally. "It is because I am a woman that I have this ugly face, James Rutlidge." She touched her disfigured cheek--"These scars are the marks of the beast that rules you, sir, body and soul. Leave this place, or, as there is a God, I'll tell a tale that will forbid you ever showing your own evil countenance in public, again." Something in her eyes and in her manner, as she spoke, caused the man--beside himself with rage, as he was--to draw back. |