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marry me), and he looked at me in this twisted kind of way; it scared me to see him. He said he'd guarantee Uncle Ira's business would get twice as big if I'd marry him. It was strictly a Business deal, he said: 'if Uncle Ira wanted to prove what he'd bragged about before, here was his chance; it would be like selling me for a big profit. But he ought to understand (this was Maurice talking) what he was letting me in for. . ."
"Iwill kill him, Max!" I vowed.
But Anastasia bade me hear her out. What Stoker's proposition came to, it developed, had not even the technical respectability of e she was to become upon his completion of , the mistress of Stoker's every whim and craving -- the which, he hinted darkly, were as infinite in number as they were bestial in character.
"It was aterrible spot to be in," she said. "If Uncle Ira saidno , he'd lose his and have to admit he was generous at heart; if he saidyes, he'd lose me -- and he really did need me -- and probably hate himself besides for what he'd done. I wanted to decidefor