to take you - you whom they have worshipped and who never hurt so much as a toad - to make you food for a monster ... ... '' you will say - i have said it many thousand times to myself - that , if i saw in her any readiness to dwell on the better part of the priest 's talk and to think she would be a god 's bride more than a brute 's prey , i ought to have fallen in with her and encouraged it .