Blood on Satan's Claw Page #4

- No.

You just sit there quiet and l won't be long.

Take an apple.

Wilt thou come and play with us, Mark?

Please.

l don't play girls' games.

Angel has taught us some new games.

Please come.

Angel wants thee.

(Bell ringing)

l see only half my class

have deigned to come today.

Mark Vespers is truant, for one.

Oh, no, Reverend, sir. He were took sick.

Have all the others, then,

succumbed to Mark's distemper?

Where's Angel Blake?

(Boy) Angel sends regards, Reverend.

Who spoke?

Says she'm sorry she could not attend but

she had some fearful important things to do.

There is, growing amongst you all,

an insolent ungodliness

which l will not tolerate!

lt's no common disease

which keeps half my class away

(Children) Round and around

and around and around.

(Laughter)

(Girl) Ooh-ooh!

(Whistles)

(Girl) Yoo-ooh!

Yoo-hoo!

Come on.

(Calling out)

(Gasps)

Oh! Who did that?

Ooh.

That cost good silver, that did.

That were for Mark.

Save your pains, mistress.

Mark won't need it no more.

What does that mean, boy?

(Laughing) We... we shut him

in the woodshed.

Hey!

(Fowl clucking)

Mark?

Mark?

Mark. Mark.

Mark. (Sobbing) Mark.

What...?

(Screaming)

What have they done?

(Crying) Mark. Oh, my Mark.

My Mark.

There.

Angel.

l'm glad you're here.

l've been meaning to speak

with you, Angel Blake.

Yes, sir?

Your behaviour, Angel,

has been most unseemly, of late.

l mean to complain to your father of it.

Do you like what you see?

Shame on you, child.

Do you like me, sir?

You...

You are beautiful, Angel.

- Do you wanna play our games with us?

- No, no.

Cover yourself up.

We want you with us, sir.

The Lord have mercy on you.

Come with me.

Get away!

l never want to see you in this school again.

Damn you, you old pagan.

Would you like to know

what becomes of your precious pupils?

One of them is dead already.

Little Mark had the devil in him.

So we cut it out.

- (Bell tolls)

- (Man) ''Man that is born of a woman

''hath but a short time to live

and is full of misery.

''He cometh up and is cut down,

like a flower. He fleeth...''

- Come on, then.

- ''..and never continueth in one stay.

''ln the midst of life, we are in death.

''Of whom may we seek for succour

but of Thee, O Lord,

''who, for our sins, art justly displeased?

''Yet, O Lord God, most holy, O Lord most

mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour,

''deliver us not into the bitter pains

of eternal death.

''Thou knowest, Lord,

the secrets of our hearts.

''Shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer

''but spare us, Lord most holy,

''O God most mighty,

''O holy and merciful Saviour,

''our most worthy judge eternal,

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