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Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.


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That's what you got for being a servant of no ambition: a shrunken life, hung up like a gibbet as a warning to others.



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And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.





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