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This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.

Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.

Dean Swift was indeed a misanthrope by theory, however he may have made exception to private life.

We shall recover again some or all of the steadfastness and dignity of the old religious life.

It is the dramatic impulse of childhood endeavouring to bring life into the dulness of the serious hours.

Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

Elyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.

Thus was the man left entirely to the devil, not even his life being reserved, as in the case of Job.

And as she hesitated between obedience to one and duty toward the other, her life, her love and future was in the balance.

Your sacrifice shall be the agony of agonies, the death of deaths, and yet you'll find yourself unable to resist.

CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU

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OCTOBER 26, 1985