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  1. I did confess, but I confessed a lie. I confessed, that I might obtain absolution; but now that falsehood lies heavier at my heart than all…
  2. Not the tenderness of friendship, nor the beauty of earth, nor of heaven, could redeem my soul from woe; the very accents of love were inef…
  3. It is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape. But she h…
  4. While I listened to the instructions which Felix bestowed upon the Arabian, the strange system of human society was explained to me. I hear…
  5. I beheld the wretch - the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called…
  6. I admired virtue and good feelings and loved the gentle manners and amiable qualities of my cottagers, but I was shut out from intercourse …
  7. How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavored to …
  8. My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These…

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