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Rh And the Serpent replied:

She grasped another that writhed in her fingers like liquid emerald, and cried:

And the Serpent replied:

She clutched one at her elbow, a hairy serpent with yellow languid eyes in flame-sockets and livid-lustrous length—a disease to look on, and cried:

And the Serpent replied:

She squeezed that hairy serpent till her finger-points whitened in his neck, and he dropped lifelessly, crying:

And the Serpents rose erect, replying: