"It never occurred to him that now he……" — Elizabeth Wein
"It never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who held his fate right between her palms - me, in patched hand-me-downs and untrimmed hair and idiot smile - and that my hatred for him is pure and black and unforgiving. And that I don't believe in God, but if I did, if I did, it would be the God of Moses, angry and demanding and OUT FOR REVENGE..."
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Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.
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