The black pawn admires the white queen ever since the beginning of this chess game, even though the white queen had tramped through the battleground with unrivaled cruelty and many of his companions were killed under her bloodstained scepter: She slashed the throat of the black bishop, stabbed the horse of the black knight, took over two insignificant black pawns in the front and checkmated the king into the corner of his unprotected kingdom.

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