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"You do not know me yet? Yes, I am cruel -- since you take such delight in the word -- and have I not the right to be? Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired: this is her complete and decisive advantage.

Through his passions, Nature has put man in thraldom to woman, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave奴隶 — a person kept in total obedience, her toy, and now to betray him at last with a smile, is a fool."

"Your own principles," I said drily.

"They are based on several thousands of years' experience," she replied with an ironical smile as her white fingers played over the dark fur. "The more devotion a woman shows, the sooner the man recovers his sanity and begins to domineer. The more cruelly she treats him, the more faithless she is, the more wantonly she plays with him, the less pity she shows -- by so much does she heighten his desire and compel his love and worship崇拜侍奉 — adoring service. So it has always been, from the times of Helen and Delilah down to those of Catherine the Great and Lola Montez."

"I will not deny," I said, "That nothing attracts a man more than the image of a beautiful, passionate, cruel and despotic woman, who changes her lovers freely and without scruple according to her whim --"

"And who in addition wears furs," the goddess女神 — a woman treated as divine struck in with a mocking look. "I know your weakness. Who better?"

I put down my crop and took up my cat-o-nine tail whip, whipping John’s back with cutting stokes of passion.