{"text":"You let me handle Marius,' I said. 'Now, you didn't come without you dagger.'No, I did not,' he said, lifting his cloak to reveal it, 'And with your permission I would like to plunge it through my heart now so I will most assuredly stone-cold dead before the Master of this house arrives home to find you runnning rampant in his garden!'Permission denied.","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["anne-rice","humor","marius","pandora","vampires"],"id":15957,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"}