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A dark malignity overspread the features of the monk, and at that moment Vivaldi thought he beheld a man whose passions might impel him to the perpetration of almost any crime, how hideous soever. He recoiled from him, as if he had suddenly seen a serpent in his path, and stood gazing on his face....
— Oct 02, 2025 09:16PM
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The callous Schedoni, by a mistake not uncommon, especially to a mind of his character, substituted words for truths ... thus making his very incapacity an argument for his superior wisdom.
— Oct 07, 2025 09:03PM
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He shuddered at the expectation of meeting a woman who had instigated him to the murder of his own child, which, though he had been happily prevented from committing it, was an act that would still be wished for by the Marchesa.
— Oct 06, 2025 09:45PM
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It is no the truth which you seek; it is not the guilty whom you punish; the innocent, having no crimes to confess, are the victims of your cruelty, or, to escape from it, become criminal and proclaim a lie.
— Oct 05, 2025 10:26PM
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[H]e heard a sudden sound near him, and raising his head from the clock, he perceived the same figure! Before he had time for exclamation, the stranger crossed him again, "Go not to the villa Altieri," said he in a solemn voice, "lest you meet the fate you ought to dread."
— Sep 30, 2025 09:19PM
