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I was answered through the stillness of night by a loud and fiendish laugh. It rang on my ears long and heavily; the mountains re-echoed it, and I fel...

“We accept,” I answered; “only I will ask your permission, sir, to address one question to you—one only.” “Speak, sir.” “You said that we should be fr...

That the life I had since led was laborious enough to kill an animal of ten times my strength. That my health was much impaired, by the continual drud...

His pride, in that direction, may be of service, if not to himself, to many others, for it must deter him from such foul misconduct as I have suffered...

“Are you not afraid of being carried away bodily, whenever you mention the devil’s name?

This thought haunted him, and he never ceased cursing his miserable folly. Finding himself too wretched to remain alone, he knocked at Aouda’s door, w...