"You can't tell the difference between someone with an ulterior motive and therefore released the wolf onto the property, I don't care if you did it on purpose or by accident ....." Orville said as he selected the various torture instruments placed on the shelves, "To put your crime in a lighter light, you are too stupid to take on a heavy responsibility; But to put it more seriously, you may have already had thoughts of treason against this Duke."
His two lightly spoken words caused Chad to shudder.
God has robbed her of her ability to speak, unable to speak up in her own defence for the rest of her life. All she could do was hold up her hands and make feeble sign language, "I didn't ..."
She is clearly loyal to Duke of Orville, and everyone can see that.
Even if she had to be knifed and burned a thousand times, she would never do anything to betray Orville.
"Gill she ... never minded that I was mute, it's rare for anyone on the estate to initiate a conversation with me, so," Chad gestured with difficulty, "I thought, thought she was ..."
[was sincere in her treatment of me.]
She bowed her head, but in Orville's eyes, she looked like a wimp who had been hurt by love, and the more he looked at her, the more he was bored.
Chad had been with him all these years and had seen every beautiful, gorgeous, intelligent gentleman and lady in the world, so why did he fall for such an unscrupulous, mediocre-looking maid?
By the look of Chad's bad luck, it seems like he's really, really in love.
Orville picked up a hooked iron whip and weighed it in his hand. It was not a light whip, and it had iron hooks all over, so a few strokes would have hurt anyone beyond recognition.
The Duke chose the instrument of torture, but felt that it was too heavy, but he had already taken it off, so it would be a little disgraceful to put it back.
Lionel, long before Duke Orville was born, he served as a Knight's Commander in the territory, it can be said that he watched Orville grow up little by little, when he was young, Orville had also been a mischievous and naive boy, however, now he was getting more and more unpredictable and cold-blooded.
He was the only one who could persuade him, and he was the only one who dared."Lord Duke," Lionel said, bending down in obeisance, "Chad did do wrong and deserved to be punished. However, he has accompanied Your Highness since he was a child and has always served as your personal knight. This boy is a man of integrity and pure heart, surely he would not betray his master for gain."
Orville turned his back and grunted coldly.
Lionel continued, "If that barbed iron whip falls, even if Chad's body is made of iron, he will be crippled. The territory has never kept waste, not to mention the fact that His Highness has spent a lot of effort in training Chad over the years, so why not leave him alive and let him strive for merit in the future as a way to redeem himself?"
Orville looked as if he had been persuaded, and Lionel immediately struck while the iron was hot, going to fetch a leather whip and replacing the iron one in the Duke's hand.
"Fifty lashes," the Duke said blandly, "for your good service for me over the years."
Chad heard the Duke pronouncing judgement on her, and she bowed her head and went down on one knee, trembling and saluting the Duke.
Seeing that Orville had handed down the punishment, Lionel again stepped forward: "Lord Duke, this foolish pupil was brought up by my own hands, and now that he has committed such a great wrong, it is my fault that I have not been able to discipline him.This flogging of fifty, why not let the subordinate himself execute it to punish the erring pupil, and not to trouble the Duke."
Orville didn't say a word, just tossed the whip in his hand and sat himself down in an armchair in front of the round table, as if he was going to watch the torture.
Chad straightened up and dropped to her knees, allowing Lionel to whip her.
The Duke was sitting in front of him, and even if Lionel wanted to hit him lightly, he couldn't make it too obvious and anger Orville.So he carefully mastered the strength of the swing of the whip, so that when the whip fell, the skin was broken and blood flowed, but it did not hurt the meridians or bones.
Chad held back the pain, the bruises on the corners of her forehead and the backs of her hands were showing, the corners of her eyes were slightly red, but she still didn't dare to grunt, she just gasped for air.
Soon Chad's back was whiped with streaks of blood, beads of blood oozing from the wounds, soaking through her clothes in no time and spreading like a mist of blood into the air with the swing of the whip.
Chad felt the smell of blood filling her mouth and nose.At the fall of the forty-seventh whip, the Duke rose and exited the main lobby.
At the forty-ninth whip, Chad could not hold back any longer and leaned over slightly, vomiting blood from her throat, but swallowed it back for fear of staining the entire cut marble floor. On the fiftieth whip, Chad finally collapsed.
She inclined her head, half her face pressed against the cold floor, and through the half-opened side door she saw the cold, sharp half-formed profile of the Duke.
Orville did not look her way and disappeared from her sight in a few steps.