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| 27 | 270 | But why, then, would it not have killed me View more quotes about first">first, and then dragged me away, like a leopard? I did not think this thing would want me as a slave. |
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| 27 | 267 | I did not understand why it had not killed me. |
| 27 | 268 | It was, somehow, however, within the pen. |
| 27 | 269 | Had it been admitted? Perhaps it was uneasy in such a situation? Perhaps it wanted to carry me to its den, there to feed on me. |
| 27 | 270 | But why, then, would it not have killed me first, and then dragged me away, like a leopard? I did not think this thing would want me as a slave. |
| 27 | 271 | I was not of its species. |
| 27 | 272 | Its lusts, and I did not doubt but what such a vital, powerful creature had them, would presumably be triggered by configurations and natures quite other than mine. |
| 27 | 273 | Indeed, I shuddered to consider what might be the rituals and habits, the courtships and matings, of such a thing. |