“Then go ahead! Punish me, since you can! Take your bloody spurs and dig ’em in hard, go on! Here’s my hand – do it! You got no idea what’s in my heart, you proud selfish creature – you got no notion how I feel sad and wicked and sorry about my friend Roger – you kill people just like that,” snapping her finger, “they don’t matter to you – but it’s a torment and a sorrow to me that I never said goodbye to my friend Roger, and I want to say sorry and make it as good as I can – you’d never understand that, for all your pride, for all your grown-up cleverness – and if I have to die to do what’s
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