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120 Rathor of Kanauj, thus tracing her origin back to an indiscretion between the sun and the moon.

And then to be told that Agnes should marry an equal … that's what hurt.

It is easily understood that, when Krishnavana reached his rooms, he solemnly cursed Burke, John Stuart Mill, Topinard, and Universal-Brotherhood-Regardless-of-Race, Color and Creed, that he made a few unparliamentary remarks about Christianity, England, and the white race in general, and prayed long and fervently to Kali, the Mother, the great goddess of destruction.

He nursed no thoughts of killing; for he was of an old race and knew that blood cannot be washed out with blood. Also there is no sweetness in giving death, since the last moment of life is but as a quick, twisting lance-thrust, since the memory of pain is of the body and not of the soul, and since the man who is killed is born again in a child's body, free of wounds and blemishes.

To kill well, you must kill the soul. And the soul of Oughtred Couzens was the soul of the System which had conceived him.

Thus Krishnavana swore calm and terrible revenge against the System, cherishing his hatred as