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51 - Melmoth The Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin · Melmoth The Wanderer

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Speaker 1: Oh, spare me, grimbald, I will tempt hermits for thee
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Speaker 1: in their cells and virgins in their dreams Dryden's King Arthur.
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Speaker 1: It is a singular but well attested fact that women
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Speaker 1: who are compelled to undergo all the inconveniences and uneasiness
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Speaker 1: of clandestine pregnancy often fare better than those whose situation
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Speaker 1: is watched over by tender and anxious relatives, and that
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Speaker 1: concealed or illegitimate births are actually attended with less danger
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Speaker 1: and suffering than those which have all the aid that
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Speaker 1: skill and affection can give. So it appeared likely to
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Speaker 1: fare with Isidora the retirement in which her family lived.
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Speaker 1: The temper of Donna Clara as slow to suspect from
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Speaker 1: want of penetration as she was eager in pursuing an
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Speaker 1: object once discovered from the natural cupidity of a vacant mind.
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Speaker 1: These circumstances, combined with the dress of the day, the
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Speaker 1: enormous and enveloping Fartingale, gave safety to her secret, at
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Speaker 1: least till the arrival of its crisis. As this crisis approached,
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Speaker 1: one may easily imagine the secret and trembling preparation the
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Speaker 1: important nerves proud of the trust reposed in her. The
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Speaker 1: confidential made the faithful and discreet medical attendant to obtain
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Speaker 1: all these Malmouth supplied her amply with money, a circumstance
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Speaker 1: that would have surprised Isidora, as his appearance was always
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Speaker 1: remarkably plain and private, if at this moment of anxiety,
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Speaker 1: any thought but that of the hour could have found
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Speaker 1: room in her mind. On the evening supposed to be
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Speaker 1: that preceding the dreaded event, Melmouth had thrown an unusual
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Speaker 1: degree of tenderness into his manner. He gazed on her
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Speaker 1: frequently with anxious and silent fondness. He seemed to have
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Speaker 1: something to communicate which he had not courage to disclose.
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Speaker 1: Is well versed in the language of the countenance, which
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Speaker 1: is often more than that of words, the language of
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Speaker 1: the heart, entreated him to tell her what he looked.
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Speaker 1: Your father is returning, said Melmoth reluctantly. He will certainly
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Speaker 1: be here in a few days, perhaps in a few hours.
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Speaker 1: Isidore heard him in silent horror. My father, she cried,
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Speaker 1: I have never seen my father. Oh, how shall I
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Speaker 1: meet him now? And is my mother ignorant of this?
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Speaker 1: Would she not have apprized me. She is ignorant at present,
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Speaker 1: but she will not long be so. And from whence
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Speaker 1: could you have obtained intelligence that she is ignorant of
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Speaker 1: Melmoth paused some time, his features assumed a more contracted
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Speaker 1: and gloomy character than they had done latterly. He answered,
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Speaker 1: with slow and stern reluctance, Never again ask me that question.
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Speaker 1: The intelligence that I can give you must be of
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Speaker 1: more importance to you than the means by which I
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Speaker 1: obtain it, enough for you that it is true. Pardon me, love,
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Speaker 1: said Isidore. It is probable that I may never again
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Speaker 1: offend you. Will you not then forgive my last offense?
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Speaker 1: Melmoth seemed too intently occupied with his own thoughts to
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Speaker 1: answer even her tears. He added, after a short and
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Speaker 1: sullen pause, Your betrothed bridegroom is coming with your father.
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Speaker 1: Montilla's father is dead. The arrangements are all concluded for
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Speaker 1: your nuptials. Your bridegroom is coming to wed the wife
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Speaker 1: of another. With him comes your fiery, foolish brother, who
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Speaker 1: has set out to meet his father and his future relative.
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Speaker 1: There will be a feast prepared in the house on
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Speaker 1: the occasion of your future nuptials. You may hear of
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Speaker 1: a strange guest appearing at your festival. I will be there.
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Speaker 1: Isidore stood, stupefied with horror. Festival, she repeated, a bridal festival,
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Speaker 1: and I already wedded to you and about to become
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Speaker 1: a mother. At this moment, the trampling of many horsemen
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Speaker 1: was heard as they approached the villa. The tumult of
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Speaker 1: the domestics, hurrying to admit and receive them, resounded through
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Speaker 1: the apartments, and Melmouth, with a gesture that seemed to
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Speaker 1: Isidora rather like a menace than a farewell, instantly disappeared,
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Speaker 1: and within an hour Isidora milt to the father she
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Speaker 1: had never till then beheld, suffered herself to be saluted
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Speaker 1: by Montilla, and accepted the embrace of her brother, who,
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Speaker 1: in the petulance of his spirit half rejected the chill
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Speaker 1: and altered form that advanced to greet him. Everything at
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Speaker 1: the family meeting was conducted in true Spanish formality. Aliaga
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Speaker 1: kissed the cold hand of his withered wife. The numerous
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Speaker 1: domestics exhibited a grave joy at the return of their mass.
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Speaker 1: Mister fra Jose assumed increased importance, and called for dinner
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Speaker 1: in a louder tone. Montella, the Lover, a cold and
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Speaker 1: quiet character, took things as they occurred. Everything lay hushed
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Speaker 1: under a brief and treacherous calm. Isidore, who trembled at
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Speaker 1: the approaching danger, felt her terrors on a sudden suspended.
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Speaker 1: It was not so very near as she apprehended, and
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Speaker 1: she bore with tolerable patience the daily mention of her
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Speaker 1: approaching nuptials, while she was momently harassed by her confidential
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Speaker 1: servants with hints of the impossibility of the event of
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Speaker 1: which they were in expectation being much longer delayed. Isidore heard,
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Speaker 1: felt endured all with courage. The grave congratulation of her
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Speaker 1: father and mother, the self complacent attentions of Montilla, sure
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Speaker 1: of the bride and of her dower. The sullen compliance
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Speaker 1: of the brother, who, unable to refuse his conceit vent,
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Speaker 1: was forever hinting that his sister might have formed a
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Speaker 1: higher connection. All these passed over her mind like a dream.
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Speaker 1: The reality of her existence seemed internal, and she said
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Speaker 1: to herself, were I at the altar? Were my hand
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Speaker 1: locked in that of Montilla? Melmoth would rend me from him,
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Speaker 1: a wild but deeply fixed conviction. A wandering image of
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Speaker 1: preternatural power overshadowed her mind while she thought of Melmoth,
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Speaker 1: and this image, which had caused her so much terror
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Speaker 1: and in quietude in her early hours of love, now
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Speaker 1: formed her only resource against the hour of inconceivable suffering.
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Speaker 1: As those unfortunate females in the Eastern tales whose beauty
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Speaker 1: has attracted the fearful passion of some evil genie are
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Speaker 1: supposed to depend at their nuptial hour on the presence
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Speaker 1: of the seducing spirit to tear from the arms of
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Speaker 1: the agonized parent and the distracted groom the victim, whom
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Speaker 1: he has reserved for himself, and whose wild devotion to
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Speaker 1: him gives a dignity to the union so unhallered and unnatural.
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Speaker 1: Aliaga's heart expanded amid the approaching completion of the felicitous
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Speaker 1: plans he had formed, and with his heart his purse,
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Speaker 1: which was its depository, opened also, and he resolved to
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Speaker 1: give a splendid fete in honor of his daughter's nuptials.
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Speaker 1: Isidore remembered Melmoth's prediction of a fatal festival, and his words,
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Speaker 1: I will be there gave her for a time a
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Speaker 1: kind of trembling confidence. But as the preparations were carried
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Speaker 1: on under her very eye, as she was hourly consulted
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Speaker 1: about the disposal of the ornaments and the decorations of
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Speaker 1: the apartments, her resolution failed, and while she uttered a
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Speaker 1: few incoherent words, her eye was glazed with horror. The
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Speaker 1: entertainer was to be a masked ball and is a door.
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Speaker 1: Who imagined that this might suggest to Melmoth some auspicious
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Speaker 1: expedient for her escape, watched in vain for some hint
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Speaker 1: of hope, some allusion to the probability of this event
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Speaker 1: facilitating her extrication from those snares of death that seemed
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Speaker 1: compassing her about He never uttered a word, and her
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Speaker 1: dependence on him was at one moment confirmed, at another
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Speaker 1: shaken to its foundation by this terrible silence. In one
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Speaker 1: of these latter moments, the anguish of which was increased
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Speaker 1: beyond expression by a conviction that her hour of danger
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Speaker 1: was not far distant, she exclaimed to Melmouth, take me
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Speaker 1: from this place. My existence is nothing. It is a
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Speaker 1: vapor that soon must be exhaled. But my reason is
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Speaker 1: threatened every moment. I cannot sustain the horrors to which
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Speaker 1: I am exposed. All this day I have been dragged
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Speaker 1: through rooms decorated from my impossible nuptials. Oh, Melmoth, if
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Speaker 1: you no longer love me, at least commiserate me, save
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Speaker 1: me from a situation of horror unspeakable. Have mercy on
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Speaker 1: your child, if not on me. I have hung on
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Speaker 1: your looks. I have watched for a word of hope.
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Speaker 1: You have not uttered a sound. You have not cast
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Speaker 1: a glance of hope on me. I am wild, I
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Speaker 1: am reckless of all but the imminent and present horrors
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Speaker 1: of tomorrow. You have talked of your power to approach,
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Speaker 1: to enter these walls without suspicion or discovery. You boasted
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Speaker 1: of that cloud of mystery in which you could envelop yourself. Oh,
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Speaker 1: in this last moment of my extremity, wrap me in
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Speaker 1: its tremendous folds and let me escape in them, though
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Speaker 1: they prove my shroud. Think of the terrible night of
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Speaker 1: our marriage. I followed you. Then, in fear and confidence.
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Speaker 1: Your touch dissolved every earthly barrier. Your steps trod an
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Speaker 1: unknown path. Yet I followed you. Oh, if you really
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Speaker 1: possess that mysterious and inscrutable power which I dare not
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Speaker 1: either question or believe. Exert it for me in this
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Speaker 1: terrible emergency aid my escape, and though I feel I
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Speaker 1: shall never live to thank you, the silent Suppliant will
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Speaker 1: remind you, by its smiles of the tears that I
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Speaker 1: now shed, and if they are shed in vain, its
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Speaker 1: smile will have a bitter eloquence as it plays with
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Speaker 1: the flowers on its mother's grave. Melmoth, as she spoke,
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Speaker 1: was profoundly silent and deeply attentive. He said, at last,
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Speaker 1: do you then resign yourself to me? Alas have I? Not?
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Speaker 1: A question is not an answer? Will you, renouncing all
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Speaker 1: other engagements, all other hopes, depend on me solely for
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Speaker 1: your extrication from this fearful emergency? I will I do?
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Speaker 1: Will you promise that if I render you the service
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Speaker 1: you require, if I employ the power you say I
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Speaker 1: have alluded to, you will be mine yours alas am
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Speaker 1: I not yours? Already you embrace my protection, then you
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Speaker 1: voluntarily seek the shelter of that power which I can
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Speaker 1: promise you yourself, will me to employ that power in
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Speaker 1: effecting your escape? Speak? Do I interpret your sentiments, aright.
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Speaker 1: I am unable to exercise those powers you invest me
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Speaker 1: with unless you yourself require me to do so. I
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Speaker 1: have waited, I've watched for the demand it has been
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Speaker 1: made with that it never had. An expression of the
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Speaker 1: fiercest agony corrugated his stern features as he spoke. But
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Speaker 1: it may yet be withdrawn. Reflect and you will not
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Speaker 1: then save me from shame and danger? Is this the
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Speaker 1: proof of your love? Is this the boast of your power?
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Speaker 1: Said Isidora. Have frantic at this delay? If I adjured
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Speaker 1: you to pause, if im elf hesitate and tremble, it
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Speaker 1: is to give time for the salutary whisper of your
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Speaker 1: better angel. Oh save me, and you shall be my angel,
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Speaker 1: said Isidora, falling at his feet. Melmoth shook through his
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Speaker 1: whole frame as he heard these words. He raised and
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Speaker 1: soothed her, however, with promises of safety, though in a
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Speaker 1: voice that seemed to announce despair, and then turning from
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Speaker 1: her burst into a passionate soliloquy, immortal Heaven. What is man?
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Speaker 1: A being with the ignorance but not the instinct of
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Speaker 1: the feeblest animals. They are like birds when thy hand
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Speaker 1: o thou, whom I dare not call father, is on them.
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Speaker 1: They scream and quiver. Though the gentle pressure is intended
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Speaker 1: only to convey the wanderer back to his cage, while
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Speaker 1: to shun the light fear that scares their senses, they
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Speaker 1: rush into the snare that is spread in their sight,
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Speaker 1: and where their captivity is hopeless. As he spoke hastily
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Speaker 1: traversing the room, his foot struck against a chair on
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Speaker 1: which a gorgeous dress was spread. What is this, he exclaimed,
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Speaker 1: What idiot, trumpery, what may queen foolery? Is this? It
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Speaker 1: is the habit I am to wear at the feast
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Speaker 1: to night, said Isidore. My attendants are coming. I hear
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Speaker 1: them at the door. Oh, with what a throbbing heart.
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Speaker 1: I shall put on this glittering mockery. But you will
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Speaker 1: not desert me. Then she added, with wild and breathless anxiety.
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Speaker 1: Fear not, said malmoth. Solemnly, you have demanded my aid,
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Speaker 1: and it shall be accorded. May your heart tremble no
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Speaker 1: more when you throw off that habit than now when
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Speaker 1: you are about to put it on. The hour approached,
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Speaker 1: and the guests were arriving. Isidore, arrayed in a splendid
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Speaker 1: and fanciful garb and rejoicing in the shelter which her
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Speaker 1: mask afforded to the expression of her pale features. Mingled
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Speaker 1: among the group, she walked one measure with Montylle, and
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Speaker 1: then declined down on the pretense of assisting her mother
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Speaker 1: in receiving and entertaining her guests. After a sumptuous banquet,
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Speaker 1: dancing was renewed in the spacious hall, and Isidor followed
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Speaker 1: the company thither with a beating heart. Twelve was the
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Speaker 1: hour at which Melmoth had promised to meet her, and
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Speaker 1: by the clock which was placed over the door of
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Speaker 1: the hall, she saw it wanted but a quarter to twelve.
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Speaker 1: The hand moved on it arrived at the hour. The
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Speaker 1: clock struck Isidor, whose eyes had been riveted on its movements,
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Speaker 1: now withdrew them in despair. At that moment, she felt
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Speaker 1: her arm gently touched, and one of the maskers, bending
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Speaker 1: towards her, whispered, I am here, and he added the
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Speaker 1: sign which Melmoth and she had agreed on as the
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Speaker 1: signal of their meeting. Isidora, unable to reply, could only
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Speaker 1: return the sign make haste he added, all is arranged
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Speaker 1: for your flight. There is not a moment to be lost.
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Speaker 1: I will leave you now, but meet me in a
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Speaker 1: few moments in the western portico. The lamps are extinguished there,
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Speaker 1: and the servants have neglected to relight them. Be silent
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Speaker 1: and be swift. He disappeared as he spoke, and Isidor,
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Speaker 1: after a few moments, followed him. Though the portico was dark,
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Speaker 1: a faint gleam from the splendidly illuminated rooms disclosed to
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Speaker 1: her the figure of Melmoth. He drew her arm under
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Speaker 1: his in silence, and proceeded to hurry her from the spot.
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Speaker 1: Stop villain, Stop, exclaimed the voice of her brother, who
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Speaker 1: followed by. Montylla sprung from the balcony. Where do you
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Speaker 1: drag my sister? And you degraded wretch, where are you
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Speaker 1: about to fly? And with whom Melmoth attempted to pass him,
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Speaker 1: supporting Isidor with one arm while the other was extended
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Speaker 1: to repel his approach, But fernand drawing his sword, placed
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Speaker 1: himself directly in their way, at the same time calling
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Speaker 1: on Montylla to raise the household and tear it a
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Speaker 1: door from his arms off fool off, exclaimed Melmoth, rush
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Speaker 1: not on destruction. I seek not your life. One victim
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Speaker 1: of your house is enough. Let us pass. Ere you perish, boaster,
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Speaker 1: prove your words, said fernand making a desperate thrust at him,
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Speaker 1: which Melmouth coolly put by with his hand. Draw coward,
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Speaker 1: cried Fernon, rendered furious by this action, My next will
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Speaker 1: be more successful. Melmoth slowly drew his sword. Boy, said
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Speaker 1: he in an awful voice. If I turn this point
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Speaker 1: against you, your life is not worth a moment's purchase.
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Speaker 1: Be wise, and let us pass. Fernan made no answer,
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Speaker 1: but by a fierce attack, which was instantly met by
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Speaker 1: his antagonist. The shrieks of Isidoor have now reached the
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Speaker 1: ears of the revelers, who rushed in crowds to the garden.
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Speaker 1: The servants followed them with flambeaux snatched from the walls
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Speaker 1: adorned for this ill omened festival, and the scene of
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Speaker 1: the combat was in a moment as light as day,
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Speaker 1: and surrounded by a hundred spectators. Part them, Part them,
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Speaker 1: save them, shrieked Isidor, writhing at the feet of her
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Speaker 1: father and mother, who with the rest, were gazing in
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Speaker 1: stupid horror at the scene. Save my brother, save my husband.
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Speaker 1: The whole dreadful truth rushed on Donna Clair's mind at
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Speaker 1: these words, and casting her conscious look at the terrified priest,
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Speaker 1: she fell to the ground. The combat was short, as
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Speaker 1: it was unequal. In two moments, Melmoth passed his sword
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Speaker 1: twice through the body of Fernand, who sunk beside Isidor
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Speaker 1: and expired. There was a universal pause of horror for
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Speaker 1: some moments. At length, a cry of seize the murderer
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Speaker 1: burst from every lip, and the crowd began to close
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Speaker 1: around Melmoth. He attempted no defense. He retreated a few paces, and,
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Speaker 1: sheathing his sword, waved them back only with his arm.
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Speaker 1: And this movement, that seemed to announce an internal power
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Speaker 1: above all physical force, have the effect of nailing every
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Speaker 1: spectator to the spot where he stood. The light of
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Speaker 1: the torches, which the trembling servants held up to gaze
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Speaker 1: on him, fell full on his countenance, and the voices
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Speaker 1: of a few shuddering speakers exclaimed Melmoth the wanderer. I am,
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Speaker 1: I am said that unfortunate being, and who now will
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Speaker 1: oppose my passing? Who will become my companion? I seek
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Speaker 1: not to injure now, but I will not be detained.
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Speaker 1: Would that breathless fool have yielded to my bidding, not
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Speaker 1: to my sword? There was but one human cord that
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Speaker 1: vibrated in my heart. It is broken tonight and forever.
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Speaker 1: I will never tempt woman more. Why should the world
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Speaker 1: wind that can shake mountains and overwhelm cities with its
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Speaker 1: breath descend to scatter the leaves of the rosebud? As
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Speaker 1: he spoke, his eyes fell on the form of his Adora,
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Speaker 1: which lay at his feet, extended beside that affair, non
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Speaker 1: over it. For a moment, a pulsation like returning life
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Speaker 1: agitated her frame. He bent nearer. He whispered, unheard by
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Speaker 1: the rest, Isidora, will you fly with me? This is
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Speaker 1: the moment. Every arm is paralyzed, every mind is frozen
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Speaker 1: to its center. Isidora, rise and fly with me? This
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Speaker 1: is your hour of safety. Isidora, who recognized the voice
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Speaker 1: but not the speaker, raised herself for a moment, looked
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Speaker 1: on Melmoth, cast a glance on the bleeding bosom of
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Speaker 1: fernand and fell on it. Died in that blood. Melmoth
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Speaker 1: started up. There was a slight movement of hostility among
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Speaker 1: some of the guests. He turned one brief and withering
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Speaker 1: glance on them. They stood, every man, his hand on
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Speaker 1: his sword, without the power to draw them, and the
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Speaker 1: very domestics held up the torches in their trembling hands,
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Speaker 1: as if with involuntary awe. They were lighting him out.
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Speaker 1: So he passed on unmolested amid the group, till he
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Speaker 1: reached the spot where Aliaga, stupefied with horace, stood beside
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Speaker 1: the bodies of his son and daughter. Old man, he exclaimed,
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Speaker 1: looking on him as the unhappy father strained his glazing
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Speaker 1: and dilated eyes to see who spoke to him, and
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Speaker 1: at length, with difficulty, recognized the form of thus stranger,
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Speaker 1: the companion of his fearful journey some months past. Wretched
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Speaker 1: old man, you were warned, but you neglected the warning.
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Speaker 1: I adjured you to save your daughter. I best knew
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Speaker 1: her danger. You saved your gold. Now estimate the value
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Speaker 1: of the dross you grasped and the precious ore you dropped.
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Speaker 1: I stood between myself and her. I warned, I menaced.
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Speaker 1: It was not for me to entreat. Wretched old man.
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Speaker 1: See the result, and he turned slowly to depart an
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Speaker 1: involuntary sound of execration and horror. Half a howl and
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Speaker 1: half a hiss pursued his parting steps, and the priest,
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Speaker 1: with a dignity that more became his profession than his character,
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Speaker 1: exclaimed aloud, depart a cursed and trouble us. Not go cursing,
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Speaker 1: and to curse, I go conquering, And to conquer answered
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Speaker 1: melmouth with wild and fierce triumph. Wretches, your vices, your passions,
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Speaker 1: and your weaknesses make you my victims. Upbraid yourselves and
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Speaker 1: not me. Heroes in your guilt, but cowards in your despair.
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Speaker 1: You would kneel at my feet for the terrible immunity
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Speaker 1: with which I passed through you. At this moment, I go,
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Speaker 1: accursed of every human heart, yet untouched by one human hand.
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Speaker 1: As he retired slowly, the murmur of suppressed but instinctive
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Speaker 1: and irrepressible horror and hatred burst from the group. He
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Speaker 1: passed on, scowling at them like a lion on a
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Speaker 1: pack of baye hounds, and departed, unmolested, unassayed. No weapon
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Speaker 1: was drawn, no arm was lifted. The mark was on
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Speaker 1: his brow, and those who could read it knew that
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Speaker 1: all human power was alike, forceless and needless, and those
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Speaker 1: who could not succumbed impassive horror. Every sword was in
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Speaker 1: its sheath as Melmouth quitted the garden. Leave him to God,
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Speaker 1: was the union universal exclamation. You could not leave him
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Speaker 1: in worse hands, exclaimed fra Jose. He will certainly be damned,
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Speaker 1: and that is some comfort to this afflicted family. End
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Speaker 1: of Chapter thirty five