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 "Treat me cruelly, brutally."

"How long shall I stay with you?"

"Through the life everlasting—it will be as one day; or for one day—it will be as the life everlasting."

"And what kind of children will you bear me, little MacLane?" he would say.

"I will bear wonderful, beautiful children—with great pain."

"But you hate pain," the Devil will say, "and when you are in your pain you will hate me."

"But no," I will answer, "pain that comes of you whom I love will be ineffable exaltation."

"And how will you treat me, little MacLane?"

"I will cast myself at your feet; or I will minister to you with divine tenderness; or I will charm you with fantastic deviltry; when you weep, I will melt into tears; when you rejoice, I will go wild with delight; when you go deaf I will stop my ears; when you go blind