Lamb to the slaughter
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an assignment -Rebekah Yates
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- Listen, I've got something to tell you.
- what's the matter?
- This is going to be a bit of a shock to you, I'm afraid. But I've thought about it a good deal and I've decided the only thing to do is tell you right away. I hope you won't blame me too much.
- So there it is. And I know it's kind of a bad time to be telling you, bet there simply wasn't any other way. Of course, I'll give you money and see that you're looked after. But there needn't be any fuss. I hope not anyway. It wouldn't be very good for my job.
- I'll get supper.
- He had now become absolutely motionless, and he kept his head down so that the light from the lamp beside him fell across the upper part of his face, leaving the chin and mouth in shadow. She noticed there was a little muscle moving near the corner of his left eye. (Dahl, 2)
- For God's sake, don't make supper for me, I'm going out.
- And He told her. If didn't take long, four or five minutes at most, and she say very still through it all, watching him with a kind of dazed horror as he went further and further away from her with each word. (Dahl, 2,3)
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- Her first instinct was not to believe any of it. to reject it all. It occur to her that perhaps he hadn't even spoken, that she herself had imagined the whole thing. Maybe, if she went about her business and acted as though she hadn't been listening, then later, when she sort of woke up again, she might find none of it had even happened. (Dahl, 3)
- All right, so I've killed him.
- Then she went to the cellar and got a leg of lamb, as she went through the living room, she saw him standing over by the window with his back to her, and she stopped. (Dahl, 3)
- At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brough it down as hard as she could on the back of his head. She stepped back a pace, waiting, and the funny thing was that he remained standing there for at least four seconds, gently swaying. Then he crashed to the carpet. (Dahl, 3)
- The violence of the crash, the noise, the small table overturning, helped birng her out of the shock. She came out slowly, feeling cold and surprised, and she stood for a while blinking at the body, still holding the ridiculous piece of meat tight with both hands. (Dahl, 3)
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