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threw her down as though she was a wild beast carrying her prey to her lair.

FANNY

What is the matter with you? Oh, my God, Madam I but that is terrible! I shall scream, leave me alone!… you frighten me!

But to all her desperate cries the only response was kisses, more intense and rapid than before. Both the women grappled till their enlacing arms made of two bodies only one, it seemed.

GAMIANI

Fanny, give yourself to me, be all, all mine! There, I give you all my life! There, that is true pleasure!… how you are trembling, my dear child! Ah, you are giving way at last!

FANNY

But that is very wrong, you shouldn’t do it, you are killing me… oh, I am surely dying!