"Anthony Piers - Incarnations Of Immortality 6 - For Love Of Evil" - читать интересную книгу автора (Anthony Piers)

"I am fifteen years old now, and in good health. I am becoming
a man. That means I am ready for a woman."

Now the milk slopped over the brim. "Oh, please, lord—"

"Surely you know that my father would have brought me
any woman I wished," he said.

She nodded, her hands still shaking.

"Obviously I asked for you. Why do you think I should
want an illiterate peasant girl one year my junior?"

FOR LOVE OF EVIL 9

Her breathing was becoming labored. "Oh, please—"

"Stop that!" he snapped. "Answer the question."

She took a shuddering breath. "Be—because I am the only
virgin without disease in die village."

"No."

"But it is true, lord! No man has touched me."

"I know it is true, but that is not why I asked for you. Try
again."

"Because my father owed—"

"No! All the villagers owe the Sorcerer!"

She shrugged. "Then I do not know, Idd."

"Pany! Call me Parry! That's my name. I am tow-born,
like you."

"Parry," she agreed faintly.

"I asked for you because I want the best woman I can get,
and you are that one."

Now she laughed. "You do ill to tease me so, lor—Pairy."

"It is true that you are young, but so am I. You are poten-
tially the smartest and Ae prettiest woman of the village. That
is why—"

This time her laugh was wholehearted. "I am the thinnest