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44 Cards in this Set
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(Bloody Chamber) tender, delicious,
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ecstasy of excitement
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(Bloody Chamber) are you sure you love him
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i'm sure I want to marry him
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(Bloody Chamber) strange, heavy
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almost waxen face
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(Bloody Chamber) my skin
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crisped at his touch
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(Bloody Chamber) a choker of rubies
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like an extraordinarily precious slit throat
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(Bloody Chamber) the white dress, the frail child within it,
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the jewel round her throat bright as arterial blood
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(Bloody Chamber) I sensed in myself
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a potentiality for corruption
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(Bloody Chamber) a dozen husbands
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impaled a dozen brides
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(Bloody Chamber)he approached his familiar treat
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with a weary appetite
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(Bloody Chamber)the lillies I always associate with him;
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they are white, they stain you
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(Bloody Chamber)I longed for him.
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And he disgusted me.
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(Bloody Chamber)absolute darkness
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and about me, the instruments of mutilation
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(Bloody Chamber)this skull was strung up
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by a system of unseen chords
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(Bloody Chamber)she was pierced,
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not by one but by a hundred spikes
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(Bloody Chamber)you never saw such a wild thing
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as my mother
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(Bloody Chamber)no paint nor powder
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can mask that red mark on my forehead
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(Bloody Chamber)i'm glad he cannot see it...
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it spares me shame
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(The Courtship of Mr Lyon) she found his bewildering difference form herself
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almost intolerable, its presence choked her
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(The Courtship of Mr Lyon)Miss Lamb,
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spotless, sacrificial
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(The Courtship of Mr Lyon)all the natural laws of the world
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were held in suspension
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(The Courtship of Mr Lyon)invincible prettiness that
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characterises, certain pampered, exquisite, expensive cats
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(The Courtship of Mr Lyon)since you left me I have been sick. I could not go hunting
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I found I had not the stomach to kill the gentle beasts
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(The Courtship of Mr Lyon)If you have me
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i'll never leave you
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(The Tiger's Bride)my father lost me
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to The beast at cards
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(The Tiger's Bride)you are so careless of your treasures
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you should expect them to be taken away from you
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(The Tiger's Bride)my spite was as sharp
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as broken glass
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(The Tiger's Bride)the beast bought solitude,
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not luxury with his money
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(The Tiger's Bride)The Beast had given his horses
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the use of the dining room
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(The Tiger's Bride)fruit and blossom
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grew on the bough together
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(The Tiger's Bride)a tear,
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I hoped, of shame
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(The Tiger's Bride)a musical box
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where her heart should be
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(The Tiger's Bride)I could not tell whether
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it was day or night
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(The Tiger's Bride)each stroke of his tongue
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ripped off skin
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(The Snow Child) I wish I has a girl as...
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white as snow, red as blood, black as a raven
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(The Snow Child)the girl picks a rose;
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pricks her finger on the thorn, bleeds; screams; falls
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(The Snow Child)thrust his
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virile member into the dead girl
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(The Company of Wolves) the wolf is worst
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because he cannot listen to reason
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(The Company of Wolves)that howl has some inherent sadness in it,
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as if the beasts would love to be less beastly if only they knew how
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(The Company of Wolves)the red shawl that, today,
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gas the ominous if brilliant look of blood on snow
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(The Company of Wolves)the forest closed upon her
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like a pair of jaws
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(The Company of Wolves)the worst wolves
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are hairy on the inside
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(The Company of Wolves)it was as red
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as the blood she must spill
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(The Company of Wolves)she freely gave him
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the kiss she owed
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(The Company of Wolves)sweet and sound
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she sleeps between the paws of the tender wolf
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