Status Updates From McTeague (Signet Classics)

“McTeague had awakened the Woman, and, whether she would or no, she was his now irrevoca-bly; struggle against it as she would, she belonged to him, body and soul, for life or for death. She had not sought it, she had not desired it. The spell was laid upon her. Was it a blessing? Was it a curse? It was all one; she was his, indissolubly, for evil or for good”. This is a little ridiculous