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Sophie: My knees are giving way. Why do...

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Baal Ekart Sophie Barger


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Sophie: My knees are giving way. Why do you run around like you were out of your mind?

Baal: Because you’re a millstone round my neck.

Ekart: How can you treat her like that when she’s pregnant by you?

Sophie: I wanted it myself, Ekart.

Baal: She wanted it herself. And now she’s a millstone round my neck.

Ekart: You are bestial. Sit down, Sophie.

Sophie: Let him go!

Ekart: If you throw her in the gutter, I’ll stay with her.

Baal: She wouldn’t stay with you, but you would abandon me for her sake. It’s just like you.

Ekart: Twice you’ve thrown me out of your bed. My girls were a matter of indifference to you but you stole diem from me, even though I loved them.

Baal: Just because you loved them. Twice I’ve desecrated corpses to keep you pure. I need it, I took no pleasure in it, by

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