All the best women are married, yes, they are – to all the worst men’ There was an infinite slow caress in her tone but she went on rapidly ‘So I shall never marry you. How should I marry a kind man, a good man? I am a barbarian, and want a barbarian lover, to crush and scarify me, but you are so tender and I am so crude. When your soft eyes look on me they look on a volcano.

All the best women are married, yes, they are – to all the worst men’ There was an infinite slow caress in her tone but she went on rapidly ‘So I shall never marry you. How should I marry a kind man, a good man? I am a barbarian, and want a barbarian lover, to crush and scarify me, but you are so tender and I am so crude. When your soft eyes look on me they look on a volcano.

– A.E. Coppard –

Dusky Ruth: And Other Stories

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