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"Silence, slave奴隶 — a person kept in total obedience!" Her mouth suddenly twisted with beautiful savagery, and she lashed me with the whip; the next moment she threw one arm around me and bent down with a tender look. "Did I hurt you?" She asked with a mixture of shyness and timidity.

"No," I said, "and even if you had, the pain that comes from you is a joy. Strike again, if it gives you any pleasure."

"Ah, it does not..."

But once again I was seized by that strange intoxication. "Whip me," I begged, "whip me without mercy!"

Wanda raised the whip and struck me twice.

"Whip me, I beg you -- it is a joy to me."

An uncanny pause.

"Severin, I am warning you -- for the last time," said Wanda.

"If you love me," I begged with upraised eyes, "be cruel."

"If I love you," she repeated slowly. "Very well!" She stepped back and looked down at me with an evil smile: standing there with the long-lashed whip doubled in her hand, she was marvellously beautiful. "Be my slave奴隶 — a person kept in total obedience then, and know what it means to be given into the hands of a woman." At the same moment she thrust me away from her with her foot.

"How do you like the sound of this, slave奴隶 — a person kept in total obedience?" she said, and cut the air with the whip. "Get up!"

I made to rise.

"Not like that," she ordered. "on your knees."

I obeyed, and she began to apply the lash.

The blows fell rapidly and with stinging force, each one cutting into my flesh and burning, but the pain was rapturous -- for it came from her whom I adored and for whom I was ready to lay down my life...