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| 8 | 851 | Too, I View more quotes about wanted">wanted to be excellent, to be superb! There was nothing to fear. |
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| 8 | 848 | But I did not care! Let them beware! I did not fear them! They would be nothing to me! I was excellent, I knew. |
| 8 | 849 | I had been popular in the pens. |
| 8 | 850 | Too, a girl must look out for herself! Too, I had desperate, peremptory needs, which required satisfaction. |
| 8 | 851 | Too, I wanted to be excellent, to be superb! There was nothing to fear. |
| 8 | 852 | Suddenly from my right emergent out of the dusk so quick so fierce so fast so large its head perhaps two feet in width the head large triangular its eyes blazing lunging toward the bars big the thing a hideous noise bars body pressing scratching I leaping back, screaming, it biting at the bars the fangs white grinding on the metal the snout thrusting against them the snarling, it couldn't get through, the growling the snarling I falling back twisting crying out then terrified on my hands and knees seeing it long thick like a gigantic furred thing snakelike lizardlike the thing it had six legs its snout then pushing under the bottom crosspiece of the gate, trying to pry it up, to get at me I screaming! I had been unable to lift the gate, even an inch. |
| 8 | 853 | But I saw the snout of that terrible triangular head, perhaps two feet wide at the base, push it up three or four inches and then it struck against some bolt, some bar or holding lever. |
| 8 | 854 | It could not crawl under the gate. |