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mouth. She bit him, still he did not heed it.
"Then, regardless of the pain he was causing, heedless of the strain he was giving the prisoner lodged in its narrow cage, he clasped her with all his strength, and with a last powerful thrust the vulva was not only reached but crossed; the membrane—so strong in the poor girl—was slit, his priapus was lodged deep into the vagina, and it slid up to the neck of the womb.
"She uttered a loud, shrill, piercing cry of pain and anguish, and the scream vibrating through the stillness of the night was heard all over the house. Regardless of any consequences of the noises already heard in answer to the scream, regardless of the blood gushing forth, he rapturously plunged and re-plunged his lance in the wound he had made, and his groans of pleasure were mixed with her plaintive wail.
"Finally he pulled his limber weapon out of her; she was free, but senseless and faint.
"I was just upon the steps, when I heard the cry. Although I was not thinking of the poor girl, still at once it seemed to me as if I recognized her voice, I flew up the steps, I
