1. Ba.Copy !req
2. Ba! Ba!Copy !req
3. Ba, ba, ba.Copy !req
4. - Bye.
- Ba, ba.Copy !req
5. A pile of organs without the spark of self
from a brain...Copy !req
6. or the pump of blood from a heart.Copy !req
7. Just a butcher's tray for a Sunday lunch.Copy !req
8. Now, who would like
to reconstruct the organs?Copy !req
9. And who can tell human from animal,
if there is a difference?Copy !req
10. Come, come.Copy !req
11. You did puzzles as children, did you not?Copy !req
12. Is it just me, or is it devilishly hard
to concentrate when the monster's talking?Copy !req
13. He is an extraordinary surgeon.Copy !req
14. His research is groundbreaking.
His father founded this place.Copy !req
15. Have you mistaken yourself as included
in this conversation, Max McCandles?Copy !req
16. Your physical proximity to us
does not make it so.Copy !req
17. Fuck off, old pal. Get yourself a suit.Copy !req
18. You really think
that's where the liver goes, sir?Copy !req
19. Can I ask what is the purpose
of putting them back in, sir?Copy !req
20. My amusement.Copy !req
21. Mr. Max McCandles!Copy !req
22. Walk with me at the end of the lesson.Copy !req
23. Your paper.Copy !req
24. You liked it, sir?Copy !req
25. It showed signs of a conventional mind
straining hard to almost touch mediocrity.Copy !req
26. - Thank you.
- I need someone. An assistant on a project.Copy !req
27. I would love to.Copy !req
28. - Are you a religious man?
- I believe in God.Copy !req
29. - Me or the deity?
- Humorous, as you're often known as the...Copy !req
30. It is a joke of my own making.Copy !req
31. I do not need it explicated for me.Copy !req
32. The very devil's work.Copy !req
33. Have you thought of growing a beard, sir?Copy !req
34. I look like a big dog in a cravat.Copy !req
35. Kids like dogs.Copy !req
36. This job.Copy !req
37. Yes. Come.Copy !req
38. God! God.Copy !req
39. God.Copy !req
40. - Hello.
- Hello.Copy !req
41. Bella, this is Mr. McCandles.Copy !req
42. Hello, Bella.Copy !req
43. - Bud.
- Blood.Copy !req
44. - Bud.
- Blood.Copy !req
45. - Blood.
- Marvelous.Copy !req
46. I'm fine. I'm fine.Copy !req
47. What a very pretty retard.Copy !req
48. She suffered a brain injury.Copy !req
49. I repaired it.Copy !req
50. Her mental age and her body
are not quite synchronized.Copy !req
51. Language is coming.
She is progressing at an accelerated pace.Copy !req
52. She is stunning.Copy !req
53. I need to meticulously note her progression.Copy !req
54. You will do this for me?Copy !req
55. It would be my honor.Copy !req
56. Wee!Copy !req
57. Wee!Copy !req
58. Yes. It is exciting, Bella.Copy !req
59. "Wee." I believe she's doing...Copy !req
60. Mrs. Prim!Copy !req
61. Wee.Copy !req
62. Do you not like kippers?Copy !req
63. I am quite partial to them, actually.Copy !req
64. I find them to be nice in the morning...Copy !req
65. Bella cut, too?Copy !req
66. Just dead ones for Bella.Copy !req
67. Just dead.Copy !req
68. Just dead.Copy !req
69. Just dead.Copy !req
70. Squish! Squish, squish.Copy !req
71. Chog!Copy !req
72. Chog!Copy !req
73. Run!Copy !req
74. Chog.Copy !req
75. She gathers 15 words a day.Copy !req
76. Her coordination is unstable at best.Copy !req
77. In the evenings, there's progress.Copy !req
78. Her hair grows one inch every two days.Copy !req
79. - I have a hair diagram here.
- Excellent.Copy !req
80. You may go. See you tomorrow.Copy !req
81. Sir, where did she come from?Copy !req
82. I believe your job is collecting data.Copy !req
83. When I add inane questions to it,
I'll let you know.Copy !req
84. "And so, when they returned from the wood...Copy !req
85. "she was reunited with her Mummy and Daddy.Copy !req
86. "That night, for dinner,
they ate cake until they were sick.Copy !req
87. "They were so happy to be back together."Copy !req
88. You me Daddy, God?Copy !req
89. - I...
- Prim say you not be.Copy !req
90. Bella nowhere girl.Copy !req
91. Where that be? Nowhere?Copy !req
92. You are an orphan.Copy !req
93. Your parents died.Copy !req
94. Then you cut parents up, God?Copy !req
95. No.Copy !req
96. They were my friends.Copy !req
97. They were brave explorers...Copy !req
98. and they were killed in a landslide
in South America.Copy !req
99. They pushed the boundaries
of what was known...Copy !req
100. and they paid the price.Copy !req
101. But that is the only way to live, Bella.Copy !req
102. They sent you to me to care for you.Copy !req
103. Dead?Copy !req
104. I'm afraid so, my darling.Copy !req
105. Poor Bella.Copy !req
106. But love God.Copy !req
107. Sleep here.Copy !req
108. No.Copy !req
109. Good night, dear Bella.Copy !req
110. This, parents.Copy !req
111. Peru, yes.Copy !req
112. Why you pen book every nut?Copy !req
113. I must note down your nutritional intake.Copy !req
114. How many?Copy !req
115. Tell Bella other places.Copy !req
116. That's Lisbon, Portugal.Copy !req
117. The south of France. The Alps.Copy !req
118. Australia.Copy !req
119. Far away and dangerous,
in both people and animal.Copy !req
120. Bella want look at world.Copy !req
121. Just...Copy !req
122. Bella.Copy !req
123. Bella, I don't think we're allowed up here.Copy !req
124. Let's just...Copy !req
125. Bella.Copy !req
126. Bella.Copy !req
127. No.Copy !req
128. Bella, this is dangerous.Copy !req
129. Bella.Copy !req
130. No, Bella.Copy !req
131. God.Copy !req
132. Outside must go.Copy !req
133. Outside? No, we work.Copy !req
134. Cut fingers?Copy !req
135. Candles take me.
Candles.Copy !req
136. Of course I can. If...Copy !req
137. No.Copy !req
138. Yes. Out!Copy !req
139. Has she ever been outside?Copy !req
140. No.Copy !req
141. I have created a perfectly entertaining
and safe world for Bella.Copy !req
142. Now.Copy !req
143. - Bella.
- Now!Copy !req
144. Now!Copy !req
145. Bella.Copy !req
146. You know, so many things outside
can kill you, Bella.Copy !req
147. Kill dead?Copy !req
148. Snakes, carriages, sharp-faced birds,
earthquakes...Copy !req
149. inhalation of toxic grass seeds.Copy !req
150. Bella.Copy !req
151. Bella.Copy !req
152. Bella. Look.Copy !req
153. - Kill it.
- What?Copy !req
154. Why you funny thumbs, God?Copy !req
155. Once when I was very small...Copy !req
156. my father pinned my thumbs
into a small iron case...Copy !req
157. to see whether he could retard
the growth cycle of bones.Copy !req
158. Now, the pain was so great...Copy !req
159. to stop myself from weeping...Copy !req
160. I would stare deeply into my other fingers...Copy !req
161. and simply by observation...Copy !req
162. begin to parse out
the epidemiological elements.Copy !req
163. When he came back...Copy !req
164. to his surprise, I was smiling.Copy !req
165. Good God.Copy !req
166. He was a man of unconventional mind.Copy !req
167. Time to go.Copy !req
168. A storm approaches.Copy !req
169. Why must you scare her so?Copy !req
170. She's an experiment...Copy !req
171. and I must control the conditions...Copy !req
172. or our results will not be pure.Copy !req
173. Stop!
God, we go!Copy !req
174. No, Bella.Copy !req
175. Bella want walk in ice cream.Copy !req
176. No.Copy !req
177. Bella wants!Copy !req
178. My face. People scared of God.Copy !req
179. Laugh at God.Copy !req
180. God lovely.Copy !req
181. Like dog face.Copy !req
182. Quite.Copy !req
183. - Stop! Me walk.
- No!Copy !req
184. No now? No never?Copy !req
185. Just no.Copy !req
186. - Bella!
- No!Copy !req
187. - No! No! No!
- Bella!Copy !req
188. No!Copy !req
189. - Sorry. Sorry.
- No!Copy !req
190. No! No!Copy !req
191. I'm sorry, my darling.Copy !req
192. Mother of God.Copy !req
193. What did you do to her?Copy !req
194. Why are you hiding her?Copy !req
195. Tell me what all this means,
or I'll go to the police.Copy !req
196. I shall. For it is a happy tale.Copy !req
197. It is rare to get a body,
albeit dead, but so close to life.Copy !req
198. Rigor had not set in.Copy !req
199. The body had hardly cooled.Copy !req
200. No pulse.Copy !req
201. But some electric currents,
so I could have kept her alive.Copy !req
202. But you didn't.Copy !req
203. I knew nothing of the life
she had abandoned...Copy !req
204. except she hated it so much
that she had chosen not to be...Copy !req
205. and forever.Copy !req
206. What would she feel...Copy !req
207. on being dragged
from her carefully chosen blank eternity...Copy !req
208. and forced to be put
in one of our understaffed...Copy !req
209. poorly-equipped madhouses,
reformatories or jails?Copy !req
210. For in this Christian nation,
suicide is treated as lunacy or crime.Copy !req
211. Who was I to decide her fate?Copy !req
212. But then there was also, on my part,
a recognition.Copy !req
213. All my research had come to this moment.Copy !req
214. Fate had brought me a dead body...Copy !req
215. and a live infant.Copy !req
216. It was obvious.Copy !req
217. It was?Copy !req
218. Take the infant's brain out...Copy !req
219. and put it in the full-grown woman,
reanimate her, and watch.Copy !req
220. Jesus!Copy !req
221. She knows?Copy !req
222. No.Copy !req
223. Who was she?Copy !req
224. No idea.Copy !req
225. But would you rather
the world did not have Bella?Copy !req
226. Mrs. Prim?Copy !req
227. Bella discover happy when she want.Copy !req
228. You are a sour face, but I fix you.Copy !req
229. Close eyes.Copy !req
230. - No!
- Just wait. It takes a moment.Copy !req
231. She grabbed my hairy business.Copy !req
232. She's sick!Copy !req
233. Bella.Copy !req
234. Bella have discover something I must share.Copy !req
235. Watch.Copy !req
236. - What if put cucumber in me?
- No.Copy !req
237. Bella! Bella!Copy !req
238. Cease working yourself immediately.Copy !req
239. What?Copy !req
240. In polite society, that is not done.Copy !req
241. Just do not.Copy !req
242. What... is that?Copy !req
243. My father took out
my oxyntic and pyloric glands...Copy !req
244. so I must make my own gastric juices.Copy !req
245. Why in God's name would he do that?Copy !req
246. To discover what no one knew.Copy !req
247. Turns out we need them. Ideally.Copy !req
248. Bella...Copy !req
249. you have not eaten.Copy !req
250. Do not.Copy !req
251. Good night.Copy !req
252. 'Night.Copy !req
253. You know, I'm actually
something of a romantic, Max.Copy !req
254. What?Copy !req
255. I believe I see love between you and Bella.Copy !req
256. I... She is...Copy !req
257. Perhaps you should marry her.Copy !req
258. What?Copy !req
259. I think she loves you.Copy !req
260. I've seen people look at each other
with love...Copy !req
261. as an observer.Copy !req
262. Not the subject, of course. I see it.Copy !req
263. You do?Copy !req
264. I...Copy !req
265. I do have feelings for her.Copy !req
266. So, you would?Copy !req
267. Take Bella out.Copy !req
268. Bella...Copy !req
269. I...Copy !req
270. Feel funny?Copy !req
271. Do Bella.Copy !req
272. I was wondering...Copy !req
273. if perhaps you were raising her
to be your mistress.Copy !req
274. A dark thought unworthy of me, I know.Copy !req
275. So, you are not laying with her?Copy !req
276. Spermatic ejaculation can only induce
homeostasis in me...Copy !req
277. if accompanied by prolonged stimulation
of higher nerve centers...Copy !req
278. whose pressure on the ductless glands
changes the chemistry of my blood...Copy !req
279. not for a few spasmodic minutes...Copy !req
280. but for many days.Copy !req
281. What?Copy !req
282. I am a eunuch and can't fuck her.Copy !req
283. To get a sexual response from my body...Copy !req
284. would take the same amount of electricity
as runs North London.Copy !req
285. Besides, my paternal feelings...Copy !req
286. seem to outweigh my sexual thoughts.Copy !req
287. I apologize for my own dark thoughts.Copy !req
288. Not dark at all.Copy !req
289. Men's, indeed all sexuality,
is basically immoral.Copy !req
290. Not all, sir.Copy !req
291. Do you wish to marry her or not?Copy !req
292. I wish to marry you. Be my wife.Copy !req
293. Let us touch each other's genital pieces.Copy !req
294. No. No.Copy !req
295. I do not wish to take advantage of you.Copy !req
296. You are special.Copy !req
297. When we are wed.Copy !req
298. One condition.Copy !req
299. She must desire it also, I understand.Copy !req
300. Two conditions, then.Copy !req
301. That one you said...Copy !req
302. and you must live here with me, always.Copy !req
303. I will have a legal agreement drawn up.Copy !req
304. Curious contract.Copy !req
305. There are several spelling errors.Copy !req
306. Immaterial to the legal bindingness of it,
I assure you.Copy !req
307. Must be quite a woman
to warrant such binding.Copy !req
308. If you'll excuse me,
I need to use the facilities.Copy !req
309. Are you five years old
that you can't hold your water?Copy !req
310. Weak bladder, sir.
Like my father before me and his before him.Copy !req
311. You may have prostate cancer. Look into it.Copy !req
312. Will do.Copy !req
313. Ms. Bella Baxter, as per your contract,
no doubt.Copy !req
314. Good afternoon, visiting man.Copy !req
315. Want my hat?Copy !req
316. Would it suit me?Copy !req
317. Yes.Copy !req
318. It is foolish good.Copy !req
319. I had to meet this woman...Copy !req
320. who would inspire such a contract of marriage
that imprisons her.Copy !req
321. What you mean?Copy !req
322. You shall live here...Copy !req
323. travel with Mr. Max McCandles
and Baxter abroad...Copy !req
324. but not go forth in the city.Copy !req
325. I see.Copy !req
326. They love me tight.Copy !req
327. I understand why.Copy !req
328. I have to pinch you, to see if you are real.Copy !req
329. You will not...Copy !req
330. Who is you?Copy !req
331. Mr. Duncan Wedderburn.Copy !req
332. Open.Copy !req
333. How you get up here?Copy !req
334. I climbed.Copy !req
335. You were watch me long?Copy !req
336. Not long.Copy !req
337. You did not see me working on myself
to get happiness, did you?Copy !req
338. It is not polites, I know.Copy !req
339. Do not care for polite society.Copy !req
340. It's fucking boring.Copy !req
341. Destroys one's soul.Copy !req
342. God not believe in soul.Copy !req
343. I think God's the actual author
of the soul idea.Copy !req
344. Godwin Baxter?Copy !req
345. That burnt dog.Copy !req
346. What is that story?Copy !req
347. You are a prisoner and I aim to free you.Copy !req
348. Something in you, some hungry being...Copy !req
349. hungry for experience, freedom, touch.Copy !req
350. To see the unknown and know it.Copy !req
351. So, why am I here, you ask?Copy !req
352. I'm going to Lisbon on Friday.
I'd like you to come.Copy !req
353. Lisbon of Portugal?Copy !req
354. That is the Lisbon I speak of.Copy !req
355. God never allow it.Copy !req
356. That's why I'm not asking him.Copy !req
357. I'm asking you.Copy !req
358. Bella not safe with you, I think.Copy !req
359. You are absolutely... not.Copy !req
360. May I have a moment of value time, dear God?Copy !req
361. Of course, Bella.Copy !req
362. I wanted to tell you big news.Copy !req
363. Bella is dizzy with excite.Copy !req
364. What is it?Copy !req
365. Tonight, at midnight...Copy !req
366. I secretly run away
with one Duncan Wedderburn.Copy !req
367. What?Copy !req
368. You will wish to stop me.Copy !req
369. I shall stop you.Copy !req
370. You hold Bella too tight.Copy !req
371. I must set forth into waters.Copy !req
372. We can travel.Copy !req
373. You, me, and Max whom,
I will remind you...Copy !req
374. you are betrothed to.Copy !req
375. I will marry Max...Copy !req
376. as he seems right for that...Copy !req
377. but first, I shall adventure
on Duncan Wedderburn...Copy !req
378. who, I think, cares little of damage to me...Copy !req
379. but will be interesting as well.Copy !req
380. I can't let you go.Copy !req
381. Kiss me and set me forth.Copy !req
382. If you do not...Copy !req
383. Bella's insides shall turn rotten with hate.Copy !req
384. - Hate?
- Hate.Copy !req
385. Unpack those bags, Prim.Copy !req
386. Godwin has told me your plan.Copy !req
387. I do not blame you, Bella.Copy !req
388. That man is a cad and a rake.Copy !req
389. He has insidious ways
of getting under a naive woman's skin.Copy !req
390. It is mostly his eyes on mine.Copy !req
391. And his hands when between Bella's legs...Copy !req
392. and whisper words I can't hear...Copy !req
393. but heat in my body.Copy !req
394. Jesus, Bella.Copy !req
395. We are engaged.Copy !req
396. I love you.Copy !req
397. And when I return, we marriage...Copy !req
398. and be happy as two doves on a branch.Copy !req
399. - You think I need travel hat?
- No!Copy !req
400. This will not do.Copy !req
401. It cannot!Copy !req
402. I'll see to this man myself.Copy !req
403. I will beat his handsome face
into a porridge of blood and bones!Copy !req
404. Max, you are flushed...Copy !req
405. and I am too at sight of different Max.Copy !req
406. I apologize...Copy !req
407. but I will not let a man that I know
has nothing but ill intent in his mind...Copy !req
408. and nothing for you in his heart trick you.Copy !req
409. I will smash his fucking head in.Copy !req
410. Bella? It...Copy !req
411. Bella.Copy !req
412. Goodbye, later dove.Copy !req
413. I will see you after grand adventure.Copy !req
414. God?Copy !req
415. She's gone.Copy !req
416. I am having port for breakfast.Copy !req
417. It is strangely delicious.Copy !req
418. Why did you not stop her?Copy !req
419. She is a being of free will.Copy !req
420. She's now out there. Alone.Copy !req
421. She will be fine.Copy !req
422. I'm a fool. I should have stopped her.Copy !req
423. We are men of science.Copy !req
424. This emotionality is unseemly.Copy !req
425. I just hope she's all right.Copy !req
426. You are the most beautiful woman
I've ever seen.Copy !req
427. I will not lie, I have been with many.Copy !req
428. Mrs. Prim said you were wolf
with scent of hundred women on you.Copy !req
429. She undersells it.Copy !req
430. Okay. Oysters.Copy !req
431. Have you had them before?Copy !req
432. I have not.Copy !req
433. Shuck, chuck and bubble.Copy !req
434. Rollicking.Copy !req
435. Rollicking.Copy !req
436. Wait. Bella.Copy !req
437. So, nuns and monks would
starch their clothes with egg whites...Copy !req
438. and, with the yolks, make these tarts.Copy !req
439. Now, how to eat them?Copy !req
440. I will guess through the mouth.Copy !req
441. They must not be eaten
dainty flake by dainty flake...Copy !req
442. but inhaled with gusto, like life itself.Copy !req
443. Incredible.Copy !req
444. Who made these?
We need more.Copy !req
445. No more. One's enough.
Any more is too much.Copy !req
446. It's siesta time.Copy !req
447. What is siesta?Copy !req
448. Why do people not just do this...Copy !req
449. all the time?Copy !req
450. Well, at the risk of being immodest...Copy !req
451. you've just been thrice fucked
by the very best.Copy !req
452. It's probable no other man
would ever bring you to the raptures I have.Copy !req
453. I feel bad for you.Copy !req
454. Well, then it will just be you
I do furious jumping with.Copy !req
455. Furious jumping?Copy !req
456. I love that.Copy !req
457. I'm rested.Copy !req
458. Let us go again.Copy !req
459. Again?Copy !req
460. Unfortunately...Copy !req
461. even I have my limits.Copy !req
462. Men cannot keep coming back for more.Copy !req
463. It is a physiological problem?Copy !req
464. A weakness in men?Copy !req
465. Well...Copy !req
466. Perhaps so.Copy !req
467. You'd be advised,
if it's not too late...Copy !req
468. not to fall in love with me.Copy !req
469. I have very little to offer...Copy !req
470. in the way of constancy.Copy !req
471. Just adventure.Copy !req
472. I see.Copy !req
473. Let us sleep.Copy !req
474. Taxi, madam?Copy !req
475. Good evening...Copy !req
476. Duncan Wedderburn.Copy !req
477. Bella, where were you? You disappeared.Copy !req
478. I did not.Copy !req
479. Nobody can just disappear.Copy !req
480. What?Copy !req
481. Can they? Disappear?Copy !req
482. No, of course not.
What the fuck are you talking...Copy !req
483. Where were you?Copy !req
484. I wanted a tart
and then an adventure befell me.Copy !req
485. I did not know how to return
and then I heard it.Copy !req
486. The tram.Copy !req
487. I will walk to the noise, and I found it.Copy !req
488. Amazement to Bella.Copy !req
489. Explorer bloods in me.Copy !req
490. Bella, it's dangerous to go out without me.Copy !req
491. I have adventured it
and found nothing but sugar and violence.Copy !req
492. It is most charming.Copy !req
493. I am fine.Copy !req
494. Now, I must lie down and you must lie down
on top of me and do more furious jumping.Copy !req
495. Kitty.Copy !req
496. Did you see the new show in London by Wilde?Copy !req
497. Marvelously witty.Copy !req
498. I loved it.Copy !req
499. "A handbag."Copy !req
500. Bella.Copy !req
501. What?Copy !req
502. Why I keep it in my mouth if it is revolting?Copy !req
503. I have said that before to Gerald.Copy !req
504. If you catch my drift.Copy !req
505. You are wicked.Copy !req
506. Oh. Because you mean his penis.Copy !req
507. Duncan's can sometimes be salty.Copy !req
508. Good God, Bella.Copy !req
509. I must go punch that baby.Copy !req
510. Bella.Copy !req
511. Your behavior is unconscionable.Copy !req
512. Will you behave?Copy !req
513. The food was cacking my throat...Copy !req
514. the baby annoying...Copy !req
515. and the woman boring with words.Copy !req
516. You will rejoin the table...Copy !req
517. and will confine yourself
to the following three phrases...Copy !req
518. "How marvelous!", "Delighted"...Copy !req
519. and "How did they make the pastry so crisp?"
Yes?Copy !req
520. You are hurting Bella.Copy !req
521. Sorry.Copy !req
522. Reason does not penetrate.Copy !req
523. Let us go.Copy !req
524. Are you enjoying Lisbon, Bella?Copy !req
525. Delighted.Copy !req
526. Kitty, how is your dear father?Copy !req
527. He's very unwell.Copy !req
528. I fear he will not see the year out.Copy !req
529. How marvelous.Copy !req
530. How did they get the pastry so crisp?Copy !req
531. Good God.Copy !req
532. What is it?Copy !req
533. From her.Copy !req
534. "Me good. Lisbon.Copy !req
535. "Sugar tart lick me all day."Copy !req
536. At least I hope
that's all one sentence, anyway.Copy !req
537. - Do you think they're...
- Fucking?Copy !req
538. Yes.Copy !req
539. Also...Copy !req
540. fellating a tram.Copy !req
541. Does your head ache too, Duncan Wedderburn?Copy !req
542. And I also am starving for dinner.Copy !req
543. Where the fuck were you?Copy !req
544. Victoria Blessington?Copy !req
545. I haven't seen you for years.Copy !req
546. And you still have not...Copy !req
547. as I am Bella Baxter...Copy !req
548. strange feathered lady.Copy !req
549. I apologize. I could've sworn you were she.Copy !req
550. Right.Copy !req
551. Shall we?Copy !req
552. The steak, the fish...Copy !req
553. little caramel things in pots...Copy !req
554. that old spotted people over there have.Copy !req
555. I don't want caramel in pots.Copy !req
556. Of course not. That was all for Bella.Copy !req
557. Order at your whim.Copy !req
558. You are cross
at Bella's outings and adventures.Copy !req
559. And yet we must discover by whim...Copy !req
560. as spoken by Duncan Wedderburn
to Bella Baxter...Copy !req
561. day one of Lisbon love affair.Copy !req
562. Touché.Copy !req
563. Understand me never lived
outside God's house.Copy !req
564. What?Copy !req
565. So, Bella so much to discover...Copy !req
566. and your sad face...Copy !req
567. makes me discover angry feelings for you.Copy !req
568. Right.Copy !req
569. I have become the very thing I hate...Copy !req
570. a grasping succubus of a lover.Copy !req
571. I've pried many of them off me
and now I'm it.Copy !req
572. Fuck!Copy !req
573. You, like me, are a creature of freedom
in the moments.Copy !req
574. What do you keep doing that for?Copy !req
575. A man over there repeated blinks at me.Copy !req
576. I blink back.Copy !req
577. For polites, I think.Copy !req
578. We are going to dance in town.
Please join us.Copy !req
579. I have never danced in town.Copy !req
580. - Duncan!
- Can't!Copy !req
581. You're quite mad.Copy !req
582. Stop talking
as your sounds make Bella angry!Copy !req
583. I will not stop talking.Copy !req
584. If I have something to say I'll...Copy !req
585. Ouch.Copy !req
586. All right.Copy !req
587. What's this?Copy !req
588. A man was teaching me chess...Copy !req
589. and he said he thought I would probably have
the softest skin he had ever touched.Copy !req
590. And I said, if I did it would be
the inner thighs to test...Copy !req
591. as that is where the epidermis
is at its most fine.Copy !req
592. So we tested...Copy !req
593. and it was the softest ever.Copy !req
594. I wondered if perhaps
they're not equal in softitude.Copy !req
595. Indeed they were not.Copy !req
596. So I made sure to note it,
remembering which was which.Copy !req
597. What of the tongue play
you were about to perform?Copy !req
598. Is that not happening?Copy !req
599. You...Copy !req
600. You are troubled.Copy !req
601. Did he lie with you?Copy !req
602. No, we were against a wall.Copy !req
603. Did you furious jump him?Copy !req
604. No, he just fast-licked my clitoris.Copy !req
605. I had the heat that needed release,
so at my request it was.Copy !req
606. You, too, may tongue play me...Copy !req
607. so I'm not understanding
this complicated feeling.Copy !req
608. Are you now crying?Copy !req
609. What a confusing person you are,
Duncan Wedderburn.Copy !req
610. A liver.Copy !req
611. A small incision...Copy !req
612. is all that is needed.Copy !req
613. I was chloroforming goats all morning.Copy !req
614. I may have ingested too much.Copy !req
615. I am going to venture to suggest
you are upset by Bella's absence.Copy !req
616. The liters of port...Copy !req
617. the sobbing I hear at night.Copy !req
618. Good God, man! You prattle like an imbecile.Copy !req
619. She is gone!Copy !req
620. I am a man of science.Copy !req
621. I just need to engage in,
and continue, the project.Copy !req
622. That is all.
I must go on to the next thing.Copy !req
623. Our feelings must be put aside.Copy !req
624. Do you think my father
could have branded me...Copy !req
625. with hot irons on the genitals
the way he did...Copy !req
626. if he could not put
science and progress first?Copy !req
627. Branded you?Copy !req
628. Let us find a body.Copy !req
629. A what?Copy !req
630. Hello. Good morning.Copy !req
631. Good morning, darling.Copy !req
632. I haven't been very supportive
of your adventurous spirit.Copy !req
633. So I have a surprise for you.Copy !req
634. Get in.Copy !req
635. - We changed hotels?
- Look out the window, Bella.Copy !req
636. - We're on boat?
- Indeed.Copy !req
637. - You aim to trap Bella at sea.
- I aim to give you a new adventure.Copy !req
638. I suppose it's true you'll be easier to find.Copy !req
639. Come, disrobe me.Copy !req
640. Ride me.Copy !req
641. And we'll then have cocktails on foredeck.Copy !req
642. Bella.Copy !req
643. Bella.Copy !req
644. Bella.Copy !req
645. Bella!Copy !req
646. Blue. Blue. Blue.Copy !req
647. Shit on me?Copy !req
648. Fucker!Copy !req
649. Madam.Copy !req
650. When do we stop?Copy !req
651. Athens. Three days.Copy !req
652. That woman's on fire, look.Copy !req
653. I know you're upset with me.Copy !req
654. Forgive my kidnapping of you,
but it was for love.Copy !req
655. A romantic jape.
Don't be such a cunt about it.Copy !req
656. - I want a drink.
- Of course, my darling.Copy !req
657. The ship is fun, a whole world to explore.Copy !req
658. Do you love me? I love you.Copy !req
659. Describe the elements I should be looking for
within myself to be sure.Copy !req
660. You just feel it or not.Copy !req
661. So it is no evidence base, as God would say.Copy !req
662. - So how judge it empirically?
- What the fuck are you talking about?Copy !req
663. Who are you?Copy !req
664. You don't know what bananas are,
you've never heard of chess...Copy !req
665. and yet you know what "empirically" means.Copy !req
666. Bella wants a drink. I said twice now.Copy !req
667. I've never felt anything like this.Copy !req
668. Is this true for you?Copy !req
669. I suppose, empirically it is.Copy !req
670. I'm out of ink.Copy !req
671. Then ink you shall have, my love.Copy !req
672. Hello, interesting older lady.Copy !req
673. I must touch your hair.Copy !req
674. I also noticed your hair.Copy !req
675. Just like silk on a translucent, glowing egg.Copy !req
676. That is fancy words that excite me somehow.Copy !req
677. I saw you're with handsome over there.Copy !req
678. White teeth and a hard cock.Copy !req
679. Duncan Wedderburn.Copy !req
680. His teeth are also hard.
His penis is also white.Copy !req
681. - Good lay, I hope.
- He is my only.Copy !req
682. But I find him to elicit exceptional
sensations throughout my whole body...Copy !req
683. that leave me yelping happily.Copy !req
684. I also wish to dash his body, form, cadaver,
into the sea.Copy !req
685. Is this man jumping on your body?Copy !req
686. No, he is not.Copy !req
687. I haven't been bedded in 20 years.Copy !req
688. What?Copy !req
689. That is terrible.Copy !req
690. It doesn't concern me greatly.Copy !req
691. As years have passed...Copy !req
692. what's in between my ears
is my big concern.Copy !req
693. What's in between my legs...Copy !req
694. much less so.Copy !req
695. A desperate rationalization, Martha.Copy !req
696. Oh, this is Harry Astley.Copy !req
697. Don't take what he says too much to heart.Copy !req
698. He's a cynic.Copy !req
699. Madam.Copy !req
700. I am Bella Baxter.Copy !req
701. I do not know what this "cynic" is.Copy !req
702. Bella.Copy !req
703. Ink.Copy !req
704. Duncan Wedderburn,
I have made friends, colleagues, comrades.Copy !req
705. Harry Astley.Copy !req
706. This is Martha.Copy !req
707. She is my new friend who has not been fucked
in 20 years.Copy !req
708. Is that not astonishment?Copy !req
709. I hope you use your hand between your legs
to keep yourself happy.Copy !req
710. Good God, Bella,
you cannot speak like this.Copy !req
711. Polites of society. I forgot.Copy !req
712. Polite society...Copy !req
713. will destroy you.Copy !req
714. - It will?
- Yeah, there's some truth to that.Copy !req
715. We all agreed on that.Copy !req
716. As to your enquiry on my hand.Copy !req
717. Occasionally, yes.Copy !req
718. That is much reassuring news.Copy !req
719. - We shall all dine together.
- Well, actually...Copy !req
720. We are all on a ship and cannot escape...Copy !req
721. and there is a world to enjoy,
traverse, circumnavigate.Copy !req
722. Or can she not have friends, Mr. Wedderburn?Copy !req
723. Delighted.Copy !req
724. Marry me.Copy !req
725. What?Copy !req
726. I meant to throw you aside.Copy !req
727. A few months and send you packing,
but I cannot.Copy !req
728. Say you'll marry me.
No one's ever captured my heart. You have.Copy !req
729. It is tricky...Copy !req
730. as I am engaged to Mr. Max McCandles.Copy !req
731. What?Copy !req
732. My hand has taken by another.Copy !req
733. It is a saying I heard,
but did not understand.Copy !req
734. You do not take just the hand,
but all, do you not?Copy !req
735. You ran away with me from him.Copy !req
736. A recounting of events,
the point of which is elusive to me.Copy !req
737. You chose me over him.Copy !req
738. For now.Copy !req
739. For fun.Copy !req
740. I'll fucking throw you overboard!Copy !req
741. So you wish to marry me or kill me?Copy !req
742. - Is that the proposal?
- No.Copy !req
743. Going to the casino.Copy !req
744. That's fine.Copy !req
745. She is coming along.Copy !req
746. Let's try again.Copy !req
747. Gross motor skills will develop slowly...Copy !req
748. but you will progress fast.Copy !req
749. Felicity.Copy !req
750. Not that fast.Copy !req
751. I am reading Emerson.Copy !req
752. He speaks about the improvement of men.Copy !req
753. I do not know why
he does not give advice to women.Copy !req
754. Perhaps he does not know any.Copy !req
755. Try and read Goethe.Copy !req
756. Philosophy is a waste of time, Bella.Copy !req
757. Really? Say more.Copy !req
758. No, no, Harry, you wretch.Copy !req
759. It is integral.Copy !req
760. People and society can be improved.Copy !req
761. It is the goal of all to improve,
advance, progress, grow.Copy !req
762. I know this in me,
and I am sure I am indicative of all.Copy !req
763. Trust me, you are definitely unique, Bella,
in all ways.Copy !req
764. But this improvement through philosophy...Copy !req
765. is people trying to run away from the fact
that we are all cruel beasts.Copy !req
766. Born that way, die that way.Copy !req
767. It is a dark view of things, Harry.Copy !req
768. Bella...Copy !req
769. let us take the air...Copy !req
770. in our cabin.Copy !req
771. But these two are fighting...Copy !req
772. and ideas are banging around
in Bella's head and heart...Copy !req
773. like lights in a storm.Copy !req
774. You're always reading now, Bella.Copy !req
775. You're losing some of your adorable way
of speaking.Copy !req
776. I am a changingable feast...Copy !req
777. as are all of we.Copy !req
778. Apparently according to Emerson,
disagreed with by Harry.Copy !req
779. Come, come. Just come.Copy !req
780. You are in my sun.Copy !req
781. What?Copy !req
782. Come.Copy !req
783. Busy drinking heavily.Copy !req
784. Busy losing heavily.Copy !req
785. I must go meet Martha.Copy !req
786. Martha.Copy !req
787. She is the problem.Copy !req
788. I'll throw that
perfumed bag of flesh overboard.Copy !req
789. I dare you.Copy !req
790. Martha!Copy !req
791. Where is she?Copy !req
792. Where are you, fuck.Copy !req
793. Where is she?Copy !req
794. - Where are you going?
- She's going over the side.Copy !req
795. Oh, marvelous!Copy !req
796. I never imagined being murdered.Copy !req
797. How dramatic.Copy !req
798. Well, she seems happy to die.
I'm sorry for getting in your way.Copy !req
799. Exciting.Copy !req
800. I'll be in the bar.Copy !req
801. You have made me think, cogitate...Copy !req
802. perambulate on ideas that are wrong...Copy !req
803. erroneous and nonsensically annoying...Copy !req
804. that lead me not to sleep.Copy !req
805. So...Copy !req
806. You say all are cruel.Copy !req
807. And I disagree, disavow...Copy !req
808. and say no not.Copy !req
809. But when with Duncan...Copy !req
810. the cruel just bubbles up in me.Copy !req
811. That shows good judgment.Copy !req
812. He is a pretty moron.Copy !req
813. No.Copy !req
814. I do not wish to be cruel.Copy !req
815. I must improve this aspect of myself.Copy !req
816. You don't know the world.Copy !req
817. And you fear it.Copy !req
818. I do not fear it.Copy !req
819. Do you want to see what the world
is really like?Copy !req
820. I'll show you.Copy !req
821. Yes.Copy !req
822. Of course.Copy !req
823. Do you hear that?Copy !req
824. What is it?Copy !req
825. Lot of dead babies.Copy !req
826. Must be hot.Copy !req
827. We must go help them.Copy !req
828. How will we do that?Copy !req
829. We go down there...Copy !req
830. they'll quite rightfully rope us,
rob us, and rape us.Copy !req
831. And if they were here
and we were there...Copy !req
832. we'd do the same to them.Copy !req
833. Bella.Copy !req
834. Bella.Copy !req
835. Bella.Copy !req
836. We are casting off, ma'am.Copy !req
837. But I have to go back.Copy !req
838. I must give this money
to the poor near the hotel...Copy !req
839. in what they call a slum.Copy !req
840. We're staying ashore, ma'am.Copy !req
841. We could take care of that for you.Copy !req
842. You can?Copy !req
843. Of course.Copy !req
844. It is generous of you.Copy !req
845. They need money.Copy !req
846. Everyone does.Copy !req
847. Thank you.Copy !req
848. You! Get me the captain.
Now we'll find this fucking thief.Copy !req
849. Bella!Copy !req
850. We've been robbed!Copy !req
851. I won.Copy !req
852. I won everything...Copy !req
853. like never before.Copy !req
854. And now it's gone.Copy !req
855. You've not been robbed.Copy !req
856. - I took it.
- For what?Copy !req
857. I took it.Copy !req
858. I'm so tired.Copy !req
859. Or maybe just my spirit is.Copy !req
860. My soul has been buckled, crumpled...Copy !req
861. flattened, Duncan Wedderburn...Copy !req
862. by the sights I have seen.Copy !req
863. - So, no need for the captain then, sir?
- Fuck off before I break all your teeth.Copy !req
864. Indeed, sir.Copy !req
865. Where is it?Copy !req
866. You hid it for safety.Copy !req
867. I was drunk and foolishly left it everywhere.
What a relief.Copy !req
868. I did not hide it.Copy !req
869. I gave it to those poor people out there.Copy !req
870. Money is its own form of sickness...Copy !req
871. and all the scarcity of it.Copy !req
872. And who am I...Copy !req
873. lying in a feather bed...Copy !req
874. while dead babies...Copy !req
875. lie in a ditch?Copy !req
876. Duncan.Copy !req
877. You what?Copy !req
878. I am expecting a hug of solace.Copy !req
879. You...Copy !req
880. I need to offer something
to the world.Copy !req
881. And yet I have nothing.Copy !req
882. Except some money.Copy !req
883. It is a bad day for Bella Baxter.Copy !req
884. Where is my fucking money?Copy !req
885. I just told you.Copy !req
886. I gave it away to the poor.Copy !req
887. I thought I told you to fuck off!Copy !req
888. The steward informs me...Copy !req
889. that you may not have sufficient funds
to make good your account, sir.Copy !req
890. - Well, I...
- That is probably true.Copy !req
891. I gave it all to some nice men...Copy !req
892. to pass on...Copy !req
893. to the slum poor.Copy !req
894. You'll be put ashore at the next port...Copy !req
895. and confined to crew's rations
until then, sir.Copy !req
896. - Good evening.
- How dare you?Copy !req
897. "Dead, blind babies...Copy !req
898. "bit Harry.Copy !req
899. "My mouth...Copy !req
900. "was full of blood."Copy !req
901. Poor Bella.Copy !req
902. She is a ruin.Copy !req
903. - How's your hand?
- It's fine.Copy !req
904. I'm sorry.Copy !req
905. You were trying to help me understand.Copy !req
906. No. I actually wanted to hurt you.Copy !req
907. Couldn't bear to see such dumb,
beautiful happiness in someone.Copy !req
908. It was cruel of me.Copy !req
909. I am not sorry.Copy !req
910. If I know the world, I can improve it.Copy !req
911. You can't.Copy !req
912. That is the real point.Copy !req
913. Don't accept the lie of religion...Copy !req
914. socialism...Copy !req
915. capitalism.Copy !req
916. We are a fucked species.Copy !req
917. Know it. Hope is smashable.Copy !req
918. Realism is not.Copy !req
919. Protect yourself with the truth.Copy !req
920. I realize what you are now, Harry.Copy !req
921. Just a broken little boy
who cannot bear the pain of the world.Copy !req
922. I suppose so.Copy !req
923. Goodbye, Harry.Copy !req
924. We get thrown off in Marseille.Copy !req
925. Why do you stay with him?Copy !req
926. I always think it will be better.Copy !req
927. 'Course you do.Copy !req
928. I have heard great things
of the beauty of Paris.Copy !req
929. I'll fucking kick your dog to death.Copy !req
930. Fucking...Copy !req
931. Paris with no money.Copy !req
932. - What do you suggest we do, Bella?
- I will get us a hotel.Copy !req
933. Do not worry.Copy !req
934. With what? We have no money.Copy !req
935. Is it not an interesting experiment?Copy !req
936. We have nothing.Copy !req
937. - How will we live now?
- I don't know!Copy !req
938. Exactly, that is the experiment.Copy !req
939. We are now the poor.Copy !req
940. Also, many adventurers have faced these odds.Copy !req
941. Robinson Crusoe, for example.Copy !req
942. Selfish, thoughtless, careless bitch.Copy !req
943. I'm not thoughtless, Duncan.Copy !req
944. And while it is true my ability...Copy !req
945. to think things through
to the logical conclusions is not...Copy !req
946. strong...Copy !req
947. I did help those suffering people.Copy !req
948. I have ruined us...Copy !req
949. as you pointed out...Copy !req
950. but I do believe my actions
come from a good place.Copy !req
951. Shut the fuck up.Copy !req
952. I will get us a hotel.Copy !req
953. Good afternoon, madam.Copy !req
954. Good day, my fresh, darling English Rose.Copy !req
955. Is this a hotel?Copy !req
956. We have rooms.Copy !req
957. Are you looking for work?Copy !req
958. How much is a room?Copy !req
959. I'll charge you 10 francs an hour.Copy !req
960. You charge them 30.Copy !req
961. Everyone's happy.Copy !req
962. I see.Copy !req
963. Monsieur Chapelle.Copy !req
964. Fresh from London.Copy !req
965. Hello.Copy !req
966. So, off you go.Copy !req
967. At this point, I am confused.Copy !req
968. You're not here to work?Copy !req
969. Come on.Copy !req
970. Lie with him, let him cock you a bit...Copy !req
971. and make some nice francs.Copy !req
972. I see.Copy !req
973. He would pay me for this?Copy !req
974. Yes.Copy !req
975. If you need money...Copy !req
976. it is the shortest route to it.Copy !req
977. I have never been cocked by another man...Copy !req
978. and yet have wondered on that.Copy !req
979. And am in need of funds.Copy !req
980. It is, I believe,
a confluence of circumstances...Copy !req
981. I regard as almost fate-like.Copy !req
982. Let us do this.Copy !req
983. Room 16.Copy !req
984. What is your name?Copy !req
985. Mysterious.Copy !req
986. Should we warm me up a bit...Copy !req
987. Good day, sir.Copy !req
988. Éclair au chocolat?Copy !req
989. I've come into some money
and some enlightenment.Copy !req
990. You stole it?Copy !req
991. You've always said you're
the best bedman in the world...Copy !req
992. and I have never known another,
so I knew not whether this was true.Copy !req
993. But now I do.Copy !req
994. And he was terrible...Copy !req
995. and made ungodly noises
as he thrust himself into me.Copy !req
996. And a mere three thrusts, Duncan Wedderburn,
was all he could manage.Copy !req
997. I stifled a laugh...Copy !req
998. out of polites, of course.Copy !req
999. I took his money. I thanked him.Copy !req
1000. I laughed all the way
to buy us these eclairs...Copy !req
1001. and I thought so fondly...Copy !req
1002. remembering the fierce sweaty nights of ours.Copy !req
1003. You fucked for money?Copy !req
1004. And as an experiment.Copy !req
1005. And it is good for our relationship
as it gladdens my heart toward you.Copy !req
1006. My heart has been a bit dim
on your weepy, sweary person lately.Copy !req
1007. You are a monster. A whore and a monster.Copy !req
1008. A demon sent from hell...Copy !req
1009. to rip my spirit to shreds.Copy !req
1010. To punish my tiny sins...Copy !req
1011. with a tsunami of destruction.Copy !req
1012. To take my heart and pull it like taffy...Copy !req
1013. to ruin me.Copy !req
1014. I look at you,
and I see nothing but ugliness.Copy !req
1015. That last bit was uncalled for
and makes no sense...Copy !req
1016. as your odes to my beauty have been boring...Copy !req
1017. but constant.Copy !req
1018. And the simple act...Copy !req
1019. of letting a strange man ride on me...Copy !req
1020. has erased all that?Copy !req
1021. Fuck!Copy !req
1022. You whored yourself.Copy !req
1023. Which you are now going to
explain to me is bad.Copy !req
1024. Can I never win with you?Copy !req
1025. It is the worst thing women can do.Copy !req
1026. We should definitely never marry.Copy !req
1027. I am a flawed, experimenting person...Copy !req
1028. and I will need a husband
with a more forgiving disposition.Copy !req
1029. Cunt!Copy !req
1030. I can now see you are not that.Copy !req
1031. Our adventure is clearly over.Copy !req
1032. I shall book you a passage back to London.Copy !req
1033. You had money...Copy !req
1034. this whole time?Copy !req
1035. It is God's money.Copy !req
1036. For emergencies.Copy !req
1037. It has been a fucking emergency
for weeks now!Copy !req
1038. I believed in you the whole time...Copy !req
1039. that you would rise to the occasion.Copy !req
1040. But now I see that was a mistake,
and there's clearly something broken in you.Copy !req
1041. You broke that something in me!Copy !req
1042. I feel this conversation has become circular.Copy !req
1043. Cunt!Copy !req
1044. Madam Swiney, I have examined my situation.Copy !req
1045. I need sex and money.Copy !req
1046. I could take a lover...Copy !req
1047. another Wedderburn who would keep me...Copy !req
1048. but may require an awful lot of attention.Copy !req
1049. Or else it's 20 minutes at a time...Copy !req
1050. and the rest of my day
is free to study on the world...Copy !req
1051. and the improvement of it.Copy !req
1052. Hence, I seek employment...Copy !req
1053. at your musty-smelling establishment
of good-time fornication.Copy !req
1054. A woman plotting her course to freedom.Copy !req
1055. How delightful.Copy !req
1056. Come.Copy !req
1057. Monsieur Saveur.Copy !req
1058. A filet mignon.Copy !req
1059. A prime cut.Copy !req
1060. Bella.Copy !req
1061. Say "formidable" at the end.Copy !req
1062. House rules.Copy !req
1063. Is that smell you?Copy !req
1064. Formidable.Copy !req
1065. For the smell.Copy !req
1066. And tea. Just because tea is nice.Copy !req
1067. It was brutal...Copy !req
1068. in a strangely not unpleasant way.Copy !req
1069. Pamphlet.Copy !req
1070. - Read.
- What is that?Copy !req
1071. Une personne qui veut...
change the world pour le meilleur.Copy !req
1072. Make it better. A better world.Copy !req
1073. Then I am that too.Copy !req
1074. Madam Swiney...Copy !req
1075. this lineup system...Copy !req
1076. you really expect me to go upstairs
with a man even if I find him distasteful...Copy !req
1077. and therefore am sad...Copy !req
1078. when I let him furious jump me?Copy !req
1079. That is the way it is, my darling.Copy !req
1080. Gosh, you look pretty.Copy !req
1081. How it agrees with you to be ravaged.Copy !req
1082. I suppose so.Copy !req
1083. So, would you not prefer it
if the women chose...Copy !req
1084. as it would be a sign of enthusiasm
toward you?Copy !req
1085. You wouldn't have the vague sense
that they are in a state of horror...Copy !req
1086. when you jump them.Copy !req
1087. Bella is new and may have a mental illness.Copy !req
1088. As God, my father, says...Copy !req
1089. it is only the way it is until we discover
the new way it is...Copy !req
1090. and then that is the way it is
until we discover the new way it is...Copy !req
1091. and so it goes until the world
is no longer flat...Copy !req
1092. electricity lights the night,
and shoes are no longer tied with ribbons.Copy !req
1093. As a socialist, I agree entirely.Copy !req
1094. Toinette, you have such a clever mouth.Copy !req
1095. Monsieur Mersault will enjoy it for free.Copy !req
1096. Go. Now.Copy !req
1097. Bella, a moment in my office.Copy !req
1098. You have the most delicious looking lobes.Copy !req
1099. Thank you.Copy !req
1100. I must...Copy !req
1101. Oh, I am sorry. I drew blood.Copy !req
1102. Here.Copy !req
1103. I sometimes give in to myself
when I see beauty, young beauty.Copy !req
1104. For one day, my dear...Copy !req
1105. you will be a wrinkled, old husk.Copy !req
1106. And no one will want you either
to pay you for it or to have it for free.Copy !req
1107. I still believe everyone would be happier
if we could choose.Copy !req
1108. An idealist.Copy !req
1109. Like me.Copy !req
1110. How delightful you are.Copy !req
1111. But we must give in to the demands
of the world sometimes.Copy !req
1112. Grapple with it, try to defeat it.Copy !req
1113. - So you believe as me?
- Of course.Copy !req
1114. But some men enjoy that you do not like it.Copy !req
1115. What?Copy !req
1116. - That is...
- Sick.Copy !req
1117. But good business.Copy !req
1118. Come with me.Copy !req
1119. My grandchild.Copy !req
1120. Sick and poorly,
and requiring much doctoring.Copy !req
1121. My choice of giving you choice
will jeopardize the business.Copy !req
1122. Her health. Her life.Copy !req
1123. - Do you want that, Bella?
- Of course not.Copy !req
1124. You don't? You're so lovely.Copy !req
1125. I thought you were going for my lobes.Copy !req
1126. We must work.Copy !req
1127. We must make money.Copy !req
1128. But more than that,
we must experience everything...Copy !req
1129. not just the good.Copy !req
1130. But degradation, horror, sadness...Copy !req
1131. This makes us whole, Bella.Copy !req
1132. Makes us people of substance...Copy !req
1133. not flighty, untouched children.Copy !req
1134. Then we can know the world.Copy !req
1135. And when we know the world...Copy !req
1136. the world is ours.Copy !req
1137. I want that.Copy !req
1138. Now...Copy !req
1139. go and fuck someone...Copy !req
1140. and bring me 10 francs.Copy !req
1141. First, I suggest a short quiz.Copy !req
1142. A quiz?Copy !req
1143. You tell me a childhood memory.Copy !req
1144. Then I tell a joke.Copy !req
1145. Then a quick sniff...Copy !req
1146. and if necessary,
a quick douse in lavender oil.Copy !req
1147. And all of this will enhance the experience
making it formidable.Copy !req
1148. Non, I tell the joke.Copy !req
1149. You the memory.Copy !req
1150. When you were little in Greece,
you fell from your bicycle?Copy !req
1151. Blood. Down my leg.Copy !req
1152. Joy?Copy !req
1153. You watched the blood with joy.Copy !req
1154. Knock, knock.Copy !req
1155. Cheese to meet you.Copy !req
1156. You know it.Copy !req
1157. You smell okay.Copy !req
1158. Let us fuck.Copy !req
1159. God gave you a gift, my friend.Copy !req
1160. Very inelegant work.Copy !req
1161. This is what you do when you're homesick?Copy !req
1162. You wish what?Copy !req
1163. My boys are of an age for education.
Sexual.Copy !req
1164. I will demonstrate.Copy !req
1165. I see.Copy !req
1166. At times.Copy !req
1167. Shall I lay, bend, astride?Copy !req
1168. Let's start simple, please.Copy !req
1169. To aid things along...Copy !req
1170. - a finger in the arse.
- No.Copy !req
1171. Or a slight choking may do it.Copy !req
1172. Go home!Copy !req
1173. Bella!Copy !req
1174. Madam Swiney was right.Copy !req
1175. I am discovering parts of myself
hitherto unknown.Copy !req
1176. It is a way to look at it.Copy !req
1177. The variety of desires being made manifest
is fascinating.Copy !req
1178. Have you had the man...Copy !req
1179. who puts a wedge of pineapple in your mouth
and covers you in dust?Copy !req
1180. Bella.Copy !req
1181. I'm almost ready to forgive you.Copy !req
1182. I've booked our berths home...Copy !req
1183. and I've told Mother
to prepare our wedding bed.Copy !req
1184. Did you fuck that guy with hooks for hands?Copy !req
1185. You did. I know!Copy !req
1186. I beat the tar out of that guy.Copy !req
1187. Duncan. I thought you left.Copy !req
1188. Back to the ship,
but started to ache and vomit...Copy !req
1189. so I'm here to save you.Copy !req
1190. Hello, Duncan.Copy !req
1191. Go home, Duncan.Copy !req
1192. Our time has ended.Copy !req
1193. I look at you and feel nothing...Copy !req
1194. but the lingering question
of how did I ever want you?Copy !req
1195. And we must go to the meeting of socialists.Copy !req
1196. You're whores.Copy !req
1197. We are our own means of production.Copy !req
1198. Go away.Copy !req
1199. Foot.Copy !req
1200. Paint, foot.Copy !req
1201. Very good.Copy !req
1202. Language is slow but improving.Copy !req
1203. Paint. Foot.Copy !req
1204. Genius.Copy !req
1205. Can you not be so cruel to her?Copy !req
1206. I made a mistake with Bella.Copy !req
1207. I allowed feelings to develop.Copy !req
1208. There are none for her.
She is no different to the chicken dog.Copy !req
1209. Foot.Copy !req
1210. It is better this way, perhaps...Copy !req
1211. and gives some insight
into my father's coolness to me.Copy !req
1212. It was a necessity of science.Copy !req
1213. Good God, man.Copy !req
1214. - Foot.
- I do not expect you to understand...Copy !req
1215. village doctor.Copy !req
1216. By the way, I need you to operate on me.Copy !req
1217. Shall I put a beating heart
in your monstrous form?Copy !req
1218. If you have time...Copy !req
1219. while taking...Copy !req
1220. this out.Copy !req
1221. I'll remove some cysts from around the tumor.Copy !req
1222. No need. You may close me up.Copy !req
1223. It has spread. I see tiny polyps.Copy !req
1224. I am dying.Copy !req
1225. How to break it to the patient, eh?Copy !req
1226. Baxter...Copy !req
1227. Do not cry into the wound!
You'll kill me faster with sepsis.Copy !req
1228. Quiet now.Copy !req
1229. And close me up.Copy !req
1230. Find her.Copy !req
1231. I am closed.Copy !req
1232. Hot chocolate, my dear.Copy !req
1233. And pain au chocolat.Copy !req
1234. You are my favorite.Copy !req
1235. I have heard you say that to the others.Copy !req
1236. We are a machine you feed
with compliments and chocolate.Copy !req
1237. You are my children I feed with love.Copy !req
1238. Something terrible has happened, Swiney.Copy !req
1239. I feel almost nothing.Copy !req
1240. My empathy is creeping
toward what I would describe...Copy !req
1241. as contemptuous rage.Copy !req
1242. This is fabulous.Copy !req
1243. It is?Copy !req
1244. You're in the dark period.Copy !req
1245. Before light and wisdom come to you.Copy !req
1246. You must forge through it...Copy !req
1247. and once on the other side...Copy !req
1248. you will be grateful to this moment,
but you must keep going.Copy !req
1249. I see.Copy !req
1250. You've got a baby scar.Copy !req
1251. Mine is with ma maman.Copy !req
1252. I don't have one.Copy !req
1253. It is an accident scar.Copy !req
1254. But you're not the first
to have made the mistake.Copy !req
1255. Why lie?Copy !req
1256. I'm not lying.Copy !req
1257. My Godwin told me himself.Copy !req
1258. Wedderburn.Copy !req
1259. Good day, sir.Copy !req
1260. You wrote to Mr. Godwin Baxter.Copy !req
1261. He has sent a demon at large into the world.Copy !req
1262. The devil's wrapped in an alluring body
that cannot be satiated...Copy !req
1263. and a mind that picks people apart
stitch by stitch...Copy !req
1264. like a bloodied and burned rag doll
shat out of an elephant's arse.Copy !req
1265. Bella.Copy !req
1266. Where is she?Copy !req
1267. Who are you?Copy !req
1268. I'm her fiancé, sir.Copy !req
1269. Obviously, things did not end well
between you.Copy !req
1270. Did not?Copy !req
1271. She destroyed me.Copy !req
1272. Well, we're all masters of our own ship, sir.Copy !req
1273. There's that.Copy !req
1274. I do not like you or your words.Copy !req
1275. That Godwin Baxter.Copy !req
1276. He knew, and he set her on to me.Copy !req
1277. He trapped me.Copy !req
1278. Where is she?Copy !req
1279. Would not wish her on my worst enemy.Copy !req
1280. I shall save you from her, sir.Copy !req
1281. Forgive my frustration. Just tell me.Copy !req
1282. It does not hurt.Copy !req
1283. I have no insides.Copy !req
1284. She hollowed me out.Copy !req
1285. My soul. My bank account!Copy !req
1286. I am a bug! A shell!Copy !req
1287. Shall we sing?Copy !req
1288. Oh, we are sailors...Copy !req
1289. It doesn't...Copy !req
1290. Doesn't hurt.Copy !req
1291. I do not wish it to be like this.Copy !req
1292. You force my hand.Copy !req
1293. "We're all masters of our own ship."Copy !req
1294. You cunting cunt-faced deadshit.Copy !req
1295. Please.Copy !req
1296. I ask you as politely as I can.Copy !req
1297. Where is she?Copy !req
1298. The whore is back.Copy !req
1299. God?Copy !req
1300. Bella!Copy !req
1301. Max wrote me.Copy !req
1302. - You are ill?
- I am not. I am dying.Copy !req
1303. A subtle difference,
but one I take seriously as a physician.Copy !req
1304. You are a sight and a good one.Copy !req
1305. You cannot die.Copy !req
1306. Empirical data says different.Copy !req
1307. I missed you.Copy !req
1308. I now have to lie down.Copy !req
1309. It is not all sunshine I bring.Copy !req
1310. I also bring beady eyes and hard questions.Copy !req
1311. Did I have a baby in me?Copy !req
1312. And if so, where is it?Copy !req
1313. I see.Copy !req
1314. Well, technically, you are your baby.Copy !req
1315. And also, I suppose you are your mother.Copy !req
1316. And also neither.Copy !req
1317. No memory survives.Copy !req
1318. No experiences survive.Copy !req
1319. What do you mean I am mother and daughter?Copy !req
1320. You knew and did not tell.Copy !req
1321. I did not see good reason to.Copy !req
1322. And were too cowardly to.Copy !req
1323. A bit of that as well.Copy !req
1324. I wanted to be with you...Copy !req
1325. and I was not sure you would even understand.Copy !req
1326. And Baxter kind of makes one a prisoner
to him.Copy !req
1327. And I am...Copy !req
1328. I'm sorry.Copy !req
1329. Bam.Copy !req
1330. Bam.Copy !req
1331. Bam.Copy !req
1332. Bam.Copy !req
1333. Bam.Copy !req
1334. Bam.Copy !req
1335. Bam.Copy !req
1336. Who is this?Copy !req
1337. Bell whoreCopy !req
1338. - Bell whore
- I see you've introduced me then, Prim.Copy !req
1339. - I like this one though.
- Bell whoreCopy !req
1340. - That's enough now, Felicity...
- Bell whoreCopy !req
1341. Fucker.Copy !req
1342. Another one?Copy !req
1343. We missed you.Copy !req
1344. Monsters.Copy !req
1345. Oh, fucking hell.Copy !req
1346. Bell whoreCopy !req
1347. Bell whoreCopy !req
1348. It is hard to be in the position
where one wants to hit someone...Copy !req
1349. who is already in obvious pain.Copy !req
1350. It is a conundrum for sure.Copy !req
1351. Would you rather be a gray slab of flesh
with a fishhook in your nose?Copy !req
1352. I will feel good for a second,
but bad for longer, so...Copy !req
1353. I really had a fishhook in my nose?Copy !req
1354. You did.Copy !req
1355. So, I am your creation...Copy !req
1356. as is the other one.Copy !req
1357. Neither of you are that.Copy !req
1358. She wanders the halls
with a hammer and a song...Copy !req
1359. and that is not my doing.Copy !req
1360. And I read your cards and letters home...Copy !req
1361. and watched you fearlessly
create Bella Baxter with wonder.Copy !req
1362. I am finding being alive fascinating,
so I'll forgive you the act...Copy !req
1363. but always hate the lies and trapping
that followed.Copy !req
1364. Understood.Copy !req
1365. Good to see you.Copy !req
1366. You too.Copy !req
1367. Anger, confusion, and brain dissonance aside,
I missed you.Copy !req
1368. I arrived home,
and I smelled the formaldehyde...Copy !req
1369. and I knew what is next.Copy !req
1370. I will be a doctor.Copy !req
1371. My surgery is yours.Copy !req
1372. My father once told me...Copy !req
1373. always carve with compassion.Copy !req
1374. He was a fucking idiot.Copy !req
1375. But it's not bad advice.Copy !req
1376. He does not have long.Copy !req
1377. I know.Copy !req
1378. You've not mentioned our betrothal.Copy !req
1379. You were much younger.Copy !req
1380. There is no bind.Copy !req
1381. I was mesmerized by you,
and Baxter took advantage.Copy !req
1382. So, you are mesmerized no more?Copy !req
1383. I am still mesmerized.Copy !req
1384. I've been a whore, you understand?Copy !req
1385. Cocks for money inside me.Copy !req
1386. You okay with that?Copy !req
1387. Does the whoring thing
challenge the desire...Copy !req
1388. for ownership that men have?Copy !req
1389. Wedderburn became much weepy and sweary...Copy !req
1390. when he discovered my whoring.Copy !req
1391. I find myself merely jealous
of the men's time with you...Copy !req
1392. rather than any moral aspersion against you.Copy !req
1393. It is your body, Bella Baxter.Copy !req
1394. Yours to give freely.Copy !req
1395. I generally charged 30 francs.Copy !req
1396. Well, that seems low.Copy !req
1397. Do you believe people improvable, Max?Copy !req
1398. I do.Copy !req
1399. Just as a human body
can be cured of illness...Copy !req
1400. so can men and women be cured of aspect.Copy !req
1401. Will you marry me, Max McCandles?Copy !req
1402. I will.Copy !req
1403. We will need less of your tongue
in the future...Copy !req
1404. but overall, most agreeable.Copy !req
1405. I will take that note.Copy !req
1406. And have you been checked for disease?Copy !req
1407. I have not, but I shall.Copy !req
1408. I'm enjoying this practical love we have.Copy !req
1409. But I assure you mine is also passionate.Copy !req
1410. You are adorable.Copy !req
1411. You always were.Copy !req
1412. God, you are walking.Copy !req
1413. I have taken five milligrams of heroin
through the toes for pain...Copy !req
1414. amphetamines for energy...Copy !req
1415. and cocaine because I am partial to cocaine.Copy !req
1416. I've come here to walk you down the aisle.Copy !req
1417. And so, by the powers vested in me
by the church...Copy !req
1418. I shall solemnize this union.Copy !req
1419. Do you, Bella Baxter,
take this man as your husband?Copy !req
1420. Did we miss the part
about anyone objecting to this?Copy !req
1421. Or has that been removed in some kind
of faux modernization of the catechism?Copy !req
1422. Hello, Victoria.Copy !req
1423. You look well.Copy !req
1424. Do you refer to me, sir?Copy !req
1425. A man doesn't normally introduce himself
to his wife.Copy !req
1426. But if I must...Copy !req
1427. He is the God of it.Copy !req
1428. I do not know if he's in her power
or she in his.Copy !req
1429. 'Tis Devil's work at hand.
Look!Copy !req
1430. He coughs not air as a normal man
but blood.Copy !req
1431. He has cancer, you fucking idiot.Copy !req
1432. Duncan.Copy !req
1433. Do not lay your eyes on me, demon!Copy !req
1434. As I was saying, General Alfred Blessington.Copy !req
1435. "Alfie" to you.Copy !req
1436. You really do not know me?Copy !req
1437. When Mr. Wedderburn
put your photo in the paper...Copy !req
1438. I remembered that old bird in the hotel
called you Victoria Blessington...Copy !req
1439. and I pieced this diabolical fuckfest
of a puzzle together.Copy !req
1440. - You are...
- Your dear Alfie.Copy !req
1441. You left in a state of some mental addlement
and hysteria over your pregnancy.Copy !req
1442. On the discovery of your absence,
I felt disemboweled.Copy !req
1443. I have disemboweled men
on the field of battle...Copy !req
1444. and I always imagined a dull,
hollow throbbing...Copy !req
1445. and that is what it was like.Copy !req
1446. There's also a stench,
but that does not apply as a metaphor here.Copy !req
1447. But here you are, my darling.Copy !req
1448. Here you are.Copy !req
1449. God.Copy !req
1450. I have no recollection of you.Copy !req
1451. I am Bella Baxter.Copy !req
1452. Hurtful.Copy !req
1453. But perhaps you've hit your head...Copy !req
1454. and these men have clearly taken
advantage of you.Copy !req
1455. Please go, sir.Copy !req
1456. - You were my husband?
- Your dear Alfie.Copy !req
1457. Bella, I'm sorry.Copy !req
1458. Actually, I would like to go.Copy !req
1459. What?Copy !req
1460. Bella?Copy !req
1461. You have a carriage, sir?Copy !req
1462. Yes.Copy !req
1463. Let us go then.Copy !req
1464. Bella!Copy !req
1465. Let me go, God.Copy !req
1466. Max, you will not stop me.Copy !req
1467. It is good to have you back, Victoria.Copy !req
1468. The servants and I
have not been getting along.Copy !req
1469. I fear an uprising.Copy !req
1470. You remember David, darling?Copy !req
1471. Allison, look who's back.Copy !req
1472. You know me?Copy !req
1473. Tell me about myself.Copy !req
1474. Was I nice?Copy !req
1475. Eat.Copy !req
1476. All your favorites.Copy !req
1477. Kippers, goose...Copy !req
1478. tongue, champagne.Copy !req
1479. I've missed you.Copy !req
1480. What was the root of the unhappiness?Copy !req
1481. What drove her to leap off the bridge?Copy !req
1482. You hated the baby.Copy !req
1483. You called it "the monster."Copy !req
1484. I see.Copy !req
1485. I have noticed a lack of maternal instinct.Copy !req
1486. And yet I'm happy to have you home.Copy !req
1487. How did we meet?Copy !req
1488. At a ball.Copy !req
1489. Why did we like each other?Copy !req
1490. We shared a love of good times.Copy !req
1491. Watch.Copy !req
1492. Allison, soup!Copy !req
1493. Rex!Copy !req
1494. Fuck!Copy !req
1495. Allison...Copy !req
1496. we'll have some cheese when you can.Copy !req
1497. A love of cruelty?Copy !req
1498. - I was not a kind person, it seems.
- Kind?Copy !req
1499. You would never be so dull, Victoria.Copy !req
1500. Appalling idea.Copy !req
1501. Wedderburn says you were a whore.Copy !req
1502. - I suspect that was part...
- I was.Copy !req
1503. In Paris.Copy !req
1504. I tired of it, but it was fascinating.Copy !req
1505. - Right.
- These kippers are strangely delicious.Copy !req
1506. Vinegary or something.Copy !req
1507. Marriage is a constant challenge.Copy !req
1508. Some, we bend to, some we bend to us.Copy !req
1509. I will try to forgive you for the whoring.Copy !req
1510. Your sexual hysteria was often out of hand.Copy !req
1511. And for the killing of our unborn child.Copy !req
1512. In fact, when I list the ways
you've wronged me...Copy !req
1513. Jesus Christ himself would probably
beat your head in with a bat.Copy !req
1514. You're blessed with a forgiving husband.Copy !req
1515. I've not wronged you, Alfie...Copy !req
1516. as I do not know you.Copy !req
1517. Well, you're in luck as I've had a lot
of experience in the field with amnesia.Copy !req
1518. Either men who wish to forget
where they were...Copy !req
1519. or a mortar exploded nearby...Copy !req
1520. ringing their cranium like a church bell.Copy !req
1521. I suggest we stick close to the house
for several months...Copy !req
1522. maybe a year.Copy !req
1523. Until you've made a full recovery.Copy !req
1524. I will leave at my leisure,
but I am flattered by your desire to trap me.Copy !req
1525. You're not the first.Copy !req
1526. I will have to shoot you
in the fucking head...Copy !req
1527. if you try to leave, darling.Copy !req
1528. The front or the back of the head?Copy !req
1529. The back.Copy !req
1530. As to be sure you were leaving...Copy !req
1531. and I was not being rash.Copy !req
1532. I have missed you.Copy !req
1533. So, I'm a prisoner?Copy !req
1534. This conversation has gone down
an unfortunate route.Copy !req
1535. I am sure you will be as happy
as you were before.Copy !req
1536. As I was before
when I threw myself from a bridge?Copy !req
1537. I suspect you fell while looking for fish.Copy !req
1538. Why would you want to keep me here
if I do not wish to stay?Copy !req
1539. If one must drown,
let it be in the river of love.Copy !req
1540. David...Copy !req
1541. does that pheasant look stripped to the bone?Copy !req
1542. It was a misjudgment, sir.Copy !req
1543. I apologize.Copy !req
1544. Dessert, darling?Copy !req
1545. It comes off easy?Copy !req
1546. Like a button on a suit.Copy !req
1547. I saw them do it in Africa
with sharpened rocks...Copy !req
1548. but had my own more precise device made.Copy !req
1549. Do you want just clitoral hood...Copy !req
1550. or glans as well?Copy !req
1551. The whole infernal packet.Copy !req
1552. It will calm her no end.Copy !req
1553. This time we will get it done.Copy !req
1554. I shall get her sedated
and bring her to your surgery this evening.Copy !req
1555. Victoria, darling!Copy !req
1556. Where are you?Copy !req
1557. Perfect timing.Copy !req
1558. Martini.Copy !req
1559. Rather not.Copy !req
1560. I would, however, like to leave.Copy !req
1561. I have found our time together interesting...Copy !req
1562. but I've ascertained
why I jumped from a bridge.Copy !req
1563. I wish to go see my near dead God.Copy !req
1564. Adorable idea.Copy !req
1565. Unfortunately, my darling...Copy !req
1566. my life is dedicated
to the taking of territory.Copy !req
1567. You are mine...Copy !req
1568. and that is the long and short of it.Copy !req
1569. I am not territory.Copy !req
1570. The root of the problem is between your legs.Copy !req
1571. I will have it off...Copy !req
1572. and it will not distract
and divert you anymore.Copy !req
1573. You see, a man spends his life
wrangling his sexual compulsions.Copy !req
1574. It's a curse and yet,
in some ways, his life's work.Copy !req
1575. A woman's life's work is children.Copy !req
1576. I intend to rid you of that infernal packet
between your legs...Copy !req
1577. and plant a seed in you straight after.Copy !req
1578. Let me explain what has happened.Copy !req
1579. Victoria, your wife, threw herself
from a bridge and died.Copy !req
1580. Godwin Baxter found her,
brought her to his surgery.Copy !req
1581. He then removed the baby,
removed the brain from the baby...Copy !req
1582. transplanted it into my head
and reanimated me.Copy !req
1583. I'll bring you the file.
It's actually quite fascinating.Copy !req
1584. However, I will keep my new life...Copy !req
1585. and my lovely old clitoris, thank you.Copy !req
1586. If you'd call a carriage for me.Copy !req
1587. They talk and talk...Copy !req
1588. and yet at some point there's nothing left
but to pull a gun.Copy !req
1589. 'Tis the way with women.Copy !req
1590. Are you giving in?Copy !req
1591. I'd rather you shot me in the fucking heart.Copy !req
1592. I will oblige if I have to.Copy !req
1593. Drink the drink, darling.Copy !req
1594. Chloroform and gin.Copy !req
1595. In some ways it would be a relief
to be rid of my questing self.Copy !req
1596. Sip deeply and that freedom is yours.Copy !req
1597. Fuck.Copy !req
1598. Max?Copy !req
1599. Max. We have to get him to surgery.Copy !req
1600. He'll die if we don't.Copy !req
1601. Bleeding a lot.Copy !req
1602. You're fucking dead.Copy !req
1603. Bella, if he lives...Copy !req
1604. I do not sense he is a man who will stop.Copy !req
1605. Well, I won't watch him bleed to death.Copy !req
1606. But I agree, he could do with improvement.Copy !req
1607. I've removed the bullet
and stopped the bleeding.Copy !req
1608. I have the notes.Copy !req
1609. I am never happier than when I'm in here.Copy !req
1610. Bella.Copy !req
1611. You're back.Copy !req
1612. It was just a story of someone else...Copy !req
1613. not Bella Baxter.Copy !req
1614. All my life, people's eyes looked at me...Copy !req
1615. horror, pity...Copy !req
1616. but you.Copy !req
1617. It's all very interesting...Copy !req
1618. what is happening.Copy !req
1619. Anatomy exam is making me nervous.Copy !req
1620. I've tested you many times. You know it.Copy !req
1621. No one knows anatomy better than you.Copy !req
1622. Ladies, gin?Copy !req
1623. Please.Copy !req
1624. Gin?Copy !req
1625. We should get some water for the general.Copy !req
1626. Felicity...Copy !req
1627. water.Copy !req