A cell able cell,    a lamp for me; a narro and flo bulked out of the gloom.

        "I s a    of my bed linen and ," I said.

        "O; said t, fixing upon me wide and suddenly melanc;O. You are a woman of ;

        And il I submitted to ts    I may not o my unspoken demand, t clapped his hands.

        "to assuage your loneliness, madame. . ."

        A knog and clattering be glides a soubrette from aa, -broakes me a moment tle cap, e stogs, ticoats. S sinkles as sowards me on iny wheels.

        "Not; said t.

        My maid ed, bo seam at trudes t delicately balanced system of cords and pulleys in the world.

        "e s," t said. "e surround ourselves instead, for utility and pleasure,    no less ve gentlemen."

        ttei, and offered me tion of s my c makes me cougs tole mirror.

        I sa not my o t of my fat on    ts palace as t. , you self-deluding fool, are y still? And drunk, too. ossed back umbler away.

        Seeing my astonis, t took t, polis ,    bae. Now all I saw was myself, , pale enougo need my maids supply e.

        I urn in ts footsteps patter doone passage. Meano poting u, as it turned out, s inexible; soon s more languorously, al    sloation of fatigue, il tes separated t of tune and plopped like single raindrops and, as if sleep aken    last so sleep, I ion but to do so too. I dropped on the narrow bed as if felled.

        time passed but I do not kray a    it doook from it a little so me.

        I turned away my head.

        "O; Suc cracked crously unfaste lay a single diamond earring, perfect as a tear.

        I s and tossed it into a er. t must urbed t as if to reprimand me, letting out a rippling fart of gavotte. till again.

        "Very ; said t, put out. And indicated it ime for me to visit my    again.    let me le natural ligerior of t I could not tell .

        You    t    sa ured calm, tifling air remained just as it , still traced ture on the same fire burned.

        take off my clot girl? Is t all you    of me?

        "t of a young ladys skin t no man ; stammered t.

        I ing bargain. t    so little    give it; I did not o speak for t to uand me.

        A tear came from s ribboned weig say, ing claws.

        tear caugside my door.

        arrived again    er in to t one lay. t ttered    but did not offer to lead me to t again. Instead, iatingly and fided: "My master, e to go riding."

        "s t;

        ion of a gallop and, to my amazement, tunelessly croaked: "tantivy! tantivy! a-ing ;

        "Ill run ao ty."

        "O; ;Are you not a woman of ;

        clicked and jangled into tation of life. So to fetc over ic arm my riding . Of all t, t Id left berunk in a loft in try side Petersburg t    long ago, before, even,    out on to t my old nurse    perfect to t button on t sleeve, tur in my    spriremble in its frame; s across Europe to me? At ed t    democraagi on? Or, so accept it as proof of to me: t, if you hing is possible?

        "tantivy," suggested t, evidently c t. t out to me and I alloo so it as if relutly, alto get out into thly palace, even in supany.

        t t day in; I sa it ing for us, striking sparks from tiles ient ablemates lolled at ease among trae speeco keep out trutted about, peg at ears of . ttle black gelding    resonated i roof as in a sounding box and I kneo ride.

        I alures, sucivity in tional restraint of energy at trung ers. I lirruped and o my sing    lips. ttle s trompe loeil foliage beed o    o    a grave grey mare. No natural o o a spar.

        Cold, t m, yet dazzling er sunlig ina. t t seemed to go    speak carried it i out at    stirred t did not lift ts.

        A bereft landscape in ter lay all about us, trag itself toated s irrecilable cry.

        A profound sense of strangeness sloo possess me. I kne, in any ainer and ter for c t of tted oo a different logic til my fato ts by ain fearfulness still; but, I    muality just as t to all t exactly like t one single soul in t ion all arous and riders, bot amongst us not one soul, eit religions in tate categorically t not beasts nor antial tes of Eden a Eve and umble out. Uand, t t say I privately engaged iapion as o tainly meditated on ture of my oate,    and sold, passed from o    clockted only tative life amongst men t the doll-maker had given her?

        Yet, as to true nature of tyle t made me recall    out ing on    I ion.

        e came to t    see across it, so still er t it scarcely seemed to floo drink. t cleared , about to speak;    privacy, beyond a brake of er-bare rushes, a hedge of reeds.

        "If you    let    your clot;

        I involuntarily shook my head --

        "-- you must, t of my master, naked."

        ted me; all at once I    t I could bear t of ever    me keenly, as if urgi my feet. I was far from home.

        "You," said t, "must."

        refuse, I    broug a gust of t    ers cloak to s irred. tiger    t is not reciprocal. t learn to run igers.

        A great, feliary of bars terrible    . le tread. ting vewin suns.

        I felt my breast ripped apart as if I suffered a marvellous    moved foro cover up er no I said: "No." tiger sat still as a , in t y to do me no    Petersburg, t of tivity. Not y.

        I tened my jacket, to s I le, for no man     s ted my fingers so; and a certain trepidatiotle article of ery before    not be, in itself, grand enougo satisfy ations of us, si e during time ing. ttered in the river.

        I se skin, my red nipples, and turo coo, eously curious as to ture of    loure. till again.

        t off toget on iger running before    I    liberty for t time in my life. ter sun began to tarnised from turo t mounted again on o all appearances, a man, o tracks t we    behind us.

        t did not returo my cell but, instead, to a, if old-fasreasury of Oriental carpets, tintinnabulation of cut-glass clered ruck rainboiy diamond earrings, t lay on my neable at ive maid stood ready ending to fix ts in my ears, I took t it    of one of its magic fits again and I did not see my o but t of my fat first I t    me. tification.

        , I sa table    no a tremendous pile of banknotes. My fatances ly barbered, smart need glass of sparkling    veo . t ly, as if it    been a sig runks ure. Could he so easily leave me here?

        te on table    quite clearly. "tely." Some    iated a liaison t at all. For, at t moment, t k my door to annou I mig any time er, and tle gratuity, ts m gift, in wo pack me up and send me off.

        t asked politely    t I y at t opportunity inued bonnily to beam. I    of my fater.

        "Leave me alone," I said to t.

        o lock took off my riding , left it , o my s, my arms dropped to my sides. I omed to nakedness. I o my o to take off all my clot t ed a little t I o give    it is not natural fo naked, not since first ripping off my o and tood poised in tion of life, co te meat of trad, if s see me, t place, cake no at of your existence.

        And it seemed my entire life, since I    t gaze of eyes like ark, except for ears. I    return to o keep me from ting    raced along to    t to guide me.

        No respoo my tentative rap on his door.

        t e creature, covered e muzzle, tlest creature in ttle to see my fine furs and je deal of tender ceremony, removed to a pack of black squeaking rats t rattled immediately doairs on ttle feet and    to sig bos room.

        t on ed on eacy    . t lay broken in pieces on ticks tered from tinguisuck by its oo telpiece lit tigers eyes.

        ip of ail tc t bethe gnawed and bloody bones. he will gobble you up.

        Nursery fears made fles and most arc. t and e, so a peaceable kingdom in e need not be my extin.

        still as stone. ened of me than I was of him.

        I squatted on t straretc my    t, loo smell my fear; .

        Sloowards me.

        A tremendous t makes turn, filled ttle room; o purr.

        t tters batter til t apart a in te ligiles came craso tyard far beloions of ions of to dance. I t: "It egrate."

        o me, until I felt t of    my ongue, abrasive as sandpaper. ";

        And eacroke of ongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all t be patina of surned back to er and trickled down my siful fur.
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