And an unloving, tyrannous, brutal man

And an unloving, tyrannous, brutal man needs no motive to prompt his cruelty; he needs only the perpetual presence of a woman he can call his own. A whole park full of tame or timid-eyed animals to torment at his will would not serve him as well to glut his lust for torture; they could not feel as one woman does; they could not throw out the keen retort that whets the edge of hatred.

Janet's Repentance

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Cruelty

Cafferky, Cristina