[Montezuma’s Daughter by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookMontezuma’s Daughter CHAPTER XXIX 15/22
If I dared I would kill you at once, only then you would haunt me as your mother haunts me, and also I must answer for it to Cortes.
Fear, Cousin Wingfield, is the father of cruelty, and mine makes me cruel to you.
Living or dead, I know that you will triumph over me at the last, but it is my turn now, and while you breathe, or while one breathes who is dear to you, I will spend my life to bring you and them to shame and misery and death, as I brought your mother, my cousin, though she forced me to it to save myself.
Why not? There is no forgiveness for me, I cannot undo the past.
You came to take vengeance on me, and soon or late by you, or through you, it will be glutted, but till then I triumph, ay, even when I must sink to this butcher's work to do it,' and suddenly he turned and left the place. Then weakness and suffering overcame me and I swooned away.
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