love-overtures

Updated: May 19, 2025

Then, with a bewildering suddenness, from the off-side of the motor, a dozen crouching men sprang out. Five minutes later, amid the mocking, jeering laughter of their captors, they were being taken to the city only not together. Miriam was forced to ride in the car seated by the side of their betrayer, the man whom she hated, and whose love-overtures she had scorned and repulsed.

Sidney Watson - The Mark of the Beast