GREATER THAN LOVE
he had loved her, so he now hated her: he hated even more than he had loved her. He had gone on the highway that ends in Llanon. At a little distance in front of him he saw her with a man, and he crept close to them and he heard their voices.
He heard Esther saying:
“Don’t you send me away now. Let me stay with you.”
The man answered: “Shut your throat, you temptress. For why did you flaunt your body before my religious eyes?”
“Did you not make fair speeches to me?” said Esther.
“Terrible is your sin,” said the man. “Turn away from me. Little Big Man bach, forgive me for eating of the wench’s fruit.”
Sam came up to them by stealth.
“Out of your head you must be, boy bach, to make sin with Esther,” he said.
Hws Morris looked into Sam’s face, and a horrid fear struck him, and he ran; and
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