Chapter 35

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​​​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​‌​⁠Persis met equine wrath with female rage. The fiercer the horse plunged the harder she beat him with the crop, the more bloodthirstily she stabbed his sides with her keen-spurred heels. Her hair flung looser and looser, and at length set free her hat, and then shook out its own tortoise-shell moorings and flew to the winds. She sawed at the horse's head, stabbed him with the spurs, railed at him w