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Rh at that moment that he touched her did he fling himself on him and cut his throat with one stroke, as if he had been a goat. Later, while they were leading him off to the judge, bound, wholly unmanned, without daring to make the least resistance,—"How," said he, "should I not have killed him. He robbed me of my Mara!"