Audiobook Dictation: “Cut a man's flesh and it…”

"Cut a man's flesh and it heals," he said. Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the stake. "Is that your creed?" she asked quietly. "Part of it, Miss Holland," he smiled. She played idly with the letter she held in her hand, balancing it on the edge of the desk, her eyes downcast. "What would justify the use of such an awful weapon?" she asked. "It is amply justified to secure an end," he said blandly. "For example--I want something--I cannot obtain that something through the ordinary channel or by the employment of ordinary means. If I can buy it, well and good. If I can buy those who can use their influence to secure this thing for me, so much the better.