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And you didn't misjudge my character, as far as you went only, every woman has more than one character. Don't you know that?" During the pause that followed, a snapping of twigs was heard, and both looked around, startled. They saw a woman stepping slowly across the neck that separated them from the mainland. "Tydomin," muttered Oceaxe, in a vexed, frightened voice.
"Just because Crimtyphon's sports are strange to you, you murder him and you would like to murder me." "Sports! That diabolical cruelty." "Oh, you're sentimental!" said Oceaxe contemptuously. "Why do you need to make such a fuss over that man? Life is life, all the world over, and one form is as good as another. He was only to be made a tree, like a million other trees.
"There's nothing left to do, except mourn the dead. You won't grudge me that last office?" "Do you want to stay here?" demanded Oceaxe suspiciously. "Yes, Oceaxe dear, I wish to be alone." "Then what is to become of us?" "I thought that you and your lover what is his name?" "Maskull." "I thought that perhaps you two would go to Disscourn, and spend Blodsombre at my home."
"Surely you must be dreaming," said Tydomin. "That's the way unless you want to walk over the cliffside." The path Oceaxe had chosen led across the isthmus. The direction which Tydomin proposed for her was over the edge of the precipice, into empty space. "Shaping! I must be mad," cried Oceaxe, with a laugh. And she obediently followed the other's finger.
Without once glancing up at Oceaxe and Maskull, she quietly glided straight toward Crimtyphon's corpse. When she arrived within a few feet of it, she stopped and looked down, with arms folded. Oceaxe drew Maskull a little away, and whispered, "It's Crimtyphon's other wife, who lives under Disscourn. She's a most dangerous woman. Be careful what you say.
She waited for Maskull to come even with her. "Perhaps you imagine I'm not man enough you imagine that because I allowed poor Oceaxe to die for me " "She did die for you," said Tydomin, in a quiet, emphatic voice. "That would be a second blunder of yours," returned Maskull, just as firmly. "I was not in love with Oceaxe, and I'm not in love with life." "Your life is not required."
Never forget however fresh and charming these plants appear to you now, in the future they will be your deadliest rivals and enemies. Now you may go." The man limped painfully away, across the isthmus, out of sight. Oceaxe yawned. Maskull pushed his way forward, as if against a wall. "Are you joking, or are you a devil?" "I am Crimtyphon. I never joke.
"What do you want?" he asked absently, still looking over the side. "It's extraordinary how drawn I feel to all this." "You wish to take a hand?" "I wish to get down." "Oh, we have a good way to go yet.... So you really feel different?" "Different from what? What are you talking about?" said Maskull, still lost in abstraction. Oceaxe laughed again.
The shrowk had hitherto been flying well above the ground; but now, when a new line of towering cliffs confronted them, Oceaxe did not urge the beast upward, but caused it to enter a narrow canyon, which intersected the mountains like a channel. They were instantly plunged into deep shade. The canal was not above thirty feet wide; the walls stretched upward on both sides for many hundred feet.
Here we have a strange riddle, in my opinion." "Oceaxe, you're a beautiful, heartless wild beast nothing more. If you weren't a woman " "Well" curling her lip "let us hear what would happen if I weren't a woman?" Maskull bit his nails. "It doesn't matter. I can't touch you though there's certainly not the difference of a hair between you and your boy-husband.
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