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+WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS
+
+FROM THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITION OF
+CELEBRATED CRIMES BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE
+
+by David Widger
+
+
+
+
+EDITOR'S NOTE
+
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+
+
+
+
+WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS
+
+FROM CELEBRATED CRIMES BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS:
+
+     THE BORGIAS
+     THE CENCI
+     MASSACRES OF THE SOUTH
+     MARY STUART
+     KARL-LUDWIG SAND
+     URBAIN GRANDIER
+     NISIDA
+     DERUES
+     LA CONSTANTIN
+     JOAN OF NAPLES
+     THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK (The Essay, not the Novel)
+     MARTIN GUERRE
+     ALI PACHA
+     THE COUNTESS DE SAINT GERAN
+     MURAT
+     THE MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS
+     VANINKA
+     THE MARQUISE DE GANGES
+
+
+
+
+
+
+NOTE:
+
+Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children.  The novelist
+has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent
+scenes of a violent time.
+
+In some instances facts appear distorted out of their true perspective,
+and in others the author makes unwarranted charges.  It is not within our
+province to edit the historical side of Dumas, any more than it would be
+to correct the obvious errors in Dickens's Child's History of England.
+The careful, mature reader, for whom the books are intended, will
+recognize, and allow for, this fact.
+
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION:
+
+The contents of these volumes of 'Celebrated Crimes', as well as the
+motives which led to their inception, are unique.  They are a series
+of stories based upon historical records, from the pen of Alexandre
+Dumas, pere, when he was not "the elder," nor yet the author of
+D'Artagnan or Monte Cristo, but was a rising young dramatist and a
+lion in the literary set and world of fashion.
+
+Dumas, in fact, wrote his 'Crimes Celebres' just prior to launching
+upon his wonderful series of historical novels, and they may
+therefore be considered as source books, whence he was to draw so
+much of that far-reaching and intimate knowledge of inner history
+which has perennially astonished his readers.  The Crimes were
+published in Paris, in 1839-40, in eight volumes, comprising eighteen
+titles--all of which now appear in the present carefully translated
+text.  The success of the original work was instantaneous.  Dumas
+laughingly said that he thought he had exhausted the subject of
+famous crimes, until the work was off the press, when he immediately
+became deluged with letters from every province in France, supplying
+him with material upon other deeds of violence!  The subjects which
+he has chosen, however, are of both historic and dramatic importance,
+and they have the added value of giving the modern reader a clear
+picture of the state of semi-lawlessness which existed in Europe,
+during the middle ages.  "The Borgias, the Cenci, Urbain Grandier,
+the Marchioness of Brinvilliers, the Marchioness of Ganges, and the
+rest--what subjects for the pen of Dumas!" exclaims Garnett.
+
+Space does not permit us to consider in detail the material here
+collected, although each title will be found to present points of
+special interest.  The first volume comprises the annals of the
+Borgias and the Cenci.  The name of the noted and notorious
+Florentine family has become a synonym for intrigue and violence, and
+yet the Borgias have not been without stanch defenders in history.
+
+Another famous Italian story is that of the Cenci.  The beautiful
+Beatrice Cenci--celebrated in the painting of Guido, the sixteenth
+century romance of Guerrazi, and the poetic tragedy of Shelley, not
+to mention numerous succeeding works inspired by her hapless fate--
+will always remain a shadowy figure and one of infinite pathos.
+
+The second volume chronicles the sanguinary deeds in the south of
+France, carried on in the name of religion, but drenching in blood
+the fair country round about Avignon, for a long period of years.
+
+The third volume is devoted to the story of Mary Queen of Scots,
+another woman who suffered a violent death, and around whose name an
+endless controversy has waged.  Dumas goes carefully into the dubious
+episodes of her stormy career, but does not allow these to blind his
+sympathy for her fate.  Mary, it should be remembered, was closely
+allied to France by education and marriage, and the French never
+forgave Elizabeth the part she played in the tragedy.
+
+The fourth volume comprises three widely dissimilar tales.  One of
+the strangest stories is that of Urbain Grandier, the innocent victim
+of a cunning and relentless religious plot.  His story was dramatised
+by Dumas, in 1850.  A famous German crime is that of Karl-Ludwig
+Sand, whose murder of Kotzebue, Councillor of the Russian Legation,
+caused an international upheaval which was not to subside for many
+years.
+
+An especially interesting volume is number six, containing, among
+other material, the famous "Man in the Iron Mask."  This unsolved
+puzzle of history was later incorporated by Dumas in one of the
+D'Artagnan Romances a section of the Vicomte de Bragelonne, to which
+it gave its name.  But in this later form, the true story of this
+singular man doomed to wear an iron vizor over his features during
+his entire lifetime could only be treated episodically.  While as a
+special subject in the Crimes, Dumas indulges his curiosity, and that
+of his reader, to the full.  Hugo's unfinished tragedy,'Les Jumeaux',
+is on the same subject; as also are others by Fournier, in French,
+and Zschokke, in German.
+
+Other stories can be given only passing mention.  The beautiful
+poisoner, Marquise de Brinvilliers, must have suggested to Dumas his
+later portrait of Miladi, in the Three Musketeers, the mast
+celebrated of his woman characters.  The incredible cruelties of Ali
+Pacha, the Turkish despot, should not be charged entirely to Dumas,
+as he is said to have been largely aided in this by one of his
+"ghosts," Mallefille.
+
+"Not a mere artist"--writes M. de Villemessant, founder of the
+Figaro,--"he has nevertheless been able to seize on those dramatic
+effects which have so much distinguished his theatrical career, and
+to give those sharp and distinct reproductions of character which
+alone can present to the reader the mind and spirit of an age.  Not a
+mere historian, he has nevertheless carefully consulted the original
+sources of information, has weighed testimonies, elicited theories,
+and .  .  .  has interpolated the poetry of history with its most
+thorough prose."
+
+
+
+
+
+                           WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS
+
+                  FROM ALEXANDRE DUMAS CELEBRATED CRIMES
+
+
+
+
+
+THE BORGIAS
+borgs10.txt or borgs10.zip [Etext #2741]
+
+Indeed, Caesar (Borgia) had the power of persuasion as a gift from
+heaven; and though they perfectly well knew his duplicity, they had no
+power of resisting, not so much his actual eloquence as that air of frank
+good-nature which Macchiavelli so greatly admired, and which indeed more
+than once deceived even him, wily politician as he was.
+
+At a time when he was besieged on all sides by mediocrities....
+
+Forgetfulness is the best cure for the losses we suffer.
+
+The vice-chamberlain (a Cardinal) one day remarked in public, when
+certain people were complaining of the venality of justice, "God wills
+not that a sinner die, but that he live and pay."
+
+The same day, the cardinal's mother sent the pope the 2000 ducats, and
+the next day his mistress, in man's attire, came in person to bring the
+missing pearl.  His Holiness, however, was so struck with her beauty in
+this costume, that, we are told, he let her keep the pearl for the same
+price she had paid for it.
+
+Roderigo, retired from public affairs, was given up entirely to the
+affections of a lover and a father, when he heard that his uncle, who
+loved him like a son, had been elected pope under the name of Calixtus
+III.  But the young man was at this time so much a lover that love
+imposed silence on ambition; and indeed he was almost terrified at the
+exaltation of his uncle, which was no doubt destined to force him once
+more into public life.
+
+
+
+
+
+THE CENCI
+cenci10.txt or cenci10.zip[Etext #2742]
+
+On the 11th of August, 1492, after the lingering death-agony of Innocent
+VIII, during which two hundred and twenty murders were committed in the
+streets of Rome, Alexander VI ascended the pontifical throne.  Son of a
+sister of Pope Calixtus III, Roderigo Lenzuoli Borgia, before being
+created cardinal, had five children by Rosa Vanozza, whom he afterwards
+caused to be married to a rich Roman.
+
+Having seen that Beatrice was sentenced to the torture ordinary and
+extraordinary, and having explained the nature of these tortures, we
+proceed to quote the official report:-- "And as in reply to every
+question she would confess nothing, we caused her to be taken by two
+officers and led from the prison to the torture chamber, where the
+torturer was in attendance; there, after cutting off her hair, he made
+her sit on a small stool, undressed her, pulled off her shoes, tied her
+hands behind her back, fastened them to a rope passed over a pulley
+bolted into the ceiling of the aforesaid chamber, and wound up at the
+other end by a four lever windlass, worked by two men."
+
+
+
+
+
+MASSACRES OF THE SOUTH
+mssth10.txt or mssth10.zip [Etext #2743]
+
+The massacres went on during the whole of the second day, though towards
+evening the search for victims relaxed somewhat; but still many isolated
+acts of murder took place during the night.  On the morrow, being tired
+of killing, the people began to destroy, and this phase lasted a long
+time, it being less fatiguing to throw stones about than corpses.  All
+the convents, all the monasteries, all the houses of the priests and
+canons were attacked in turn; nothing was spared except the cathedral,
+before which axes and crowbars seemed to lose their power, and the church
+of Ste. Eugenie, which was turned into a powder-magazine.  The day of the
+great butchery was called "La Michelade," because it took place the day
+after Michaelmas, and as all this happened in the year 1567 the Massacre
+of St.  Bartholomew must be regarded as a plagiarism.
+
+But from this period, each flux and reflux bears more and more the
+peculiar character of the party which for the moment is triumphant; when
+the Protestants get the upper hand, their vengeance is marked by
+brutality and rage; when the Catholics are victorious, the retaliation is
+full of hypocrisy and greed.  The Protestants pull down churches and
+monasteries, expel the monks, burn the crucifixes, take the body of some
+criminal from the gallows, nail it on a cross, pierce its side, put a
+crown of thorns round its temples and set it up in the market-place--an
+effigy of Jesus on Calvary.  The Catholics levy contributions, take back
+what they had been deprived of, exact indemnities, and although ruined by
+each reverse, are richer than ever after each victory.
+
+
+
+
+
+Mary Stuart
+marys10.txt or marys10.zip [Etext #2744]
+
+Mary was a harmony in which the most ardent enthusiast for sculptured
+form could have found nothing to reproach.  This was indeed Mary's great
+and real crime: one single imperfection in face or figure, and she would
+not have died upon the scaffold.  Besides, to Elizabeth, who had never
+seen her, and who consequently could only judge by hearsay, this beauty
+was a great cause of uneasiness and of jealousy, which she could not even
+disguise, and which showed itself unceasingly in eager questions.
+
+Unfortunately for her honour, Mary, always more the woman than the queen,
+while, on the contrary, Elizabeth was always more the queen than the
+woman, had no sooner regained her power than her first royal act was to
+exhume Rizzio, who had been quietly buried on the threshold of the chapel
+nearest Holyrood Palace, and to have him removed to the burial-place of
+the Scottish kings, compromising herself still more by the honours she
+paid him dead, than by the favour she had granted him living.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+NISIDA
+nisid10.txt or nisid10.zip [Etext #2747]
+
+The priests had already begun to sing the death hymn; the executioner was
+ready, the procession had set out, when Solomon the fisherman appeared
+suddenly on the threshold of the prison, his eyes aflame and his brow
+radiant with the halo of the patriarchs.  The old man drew himself up to
+his full height, and raising in one hand the reddened knife, said in a
+sublime voice, "The sacrifice is fulfilled.  God did not send His angel
+to stay the hand of Abraham."
+
+The crowd carried him in triumph!
+
+[The details of this case are recorded in the archives of the Criminal
+Court at Naples.  We have changed nothing in the age or position of the
+persons who appear in this narrative.  One of the most celebrated
+advocates at the Neapolitan bar secured the acquittal of the old man.]
+
+
+
+
+
+
+KARL LUDWIG SAND
+ksand10.txt or ksand10.zip [Etext #2745]
+
+Fundamentally nothing is great, you see, and nothing small, when things
+are looked at apart from one another.
+
+
+
+
+
+URBAIN GRANDIER
+ugran10.txt or ugran10.zip [Etext #2746]
+
+Danger of driving the vanquished to despair.
+
+Let fall from the height of his superiority a few of those disdainful
+words which brand as deeply as a red-hot iron.
+
+The more absurd the reports, the more credence did they gain.
+
+....crowd of prejudices, which are sacred to the vulgar.
+
+Fourneau having saluted Grandier, proceeded to carry out his orders,
+whereupon a judge said it was not sufficient to shave the body of the
+prisoner, but that his nails must also be torn out, lest the devil should
+hide beneath them.  Grandier looked at the speaker with an expression of
+unutterable pity, and held out his hands to Fourneau; but Forneau put
+them gently aside, and said he would do nothing of the kind, even were
+the order given by the cardinal-duke himself.
+
+
+
+
+
+LA CONSTANTIN
+const10.txt or const10.zip [Etext #2749]
+
+Madly in love, which is the same as saying that he was hopelessly blind,
+silly, and dense to everything around him.
+
+It is singular how very clear-sighted we can be about things that don't
+touch us.
+
+There in semi-isolation and despoiled of her greatness lived
+Angelique-Louise de Guerchi, formerly companion to Mademoiselle de Pons
+and then maid of honour to Anne of Austria.  Her love intrigues and the
+scandals they gave rise to had led to her dismissal from court.  Not that
+she was a greater sinner than many who remained behind, only she was
+unlucky enough or stupid enough to be found out.  Her admirers were so
+indiscreet that they had not left her a shred of reputation, and in a
+court where a cardinal is the lover of a queen, a hypocritical appearance
+of decorum is indispensable to success.  So Angelique had to suffer for
+the faults she was not clever enough to hide.
+
+
+
+
+
+DERUES
+derue10.txt or derue10.zip [Etext #2748]
+
+"All passions," says La Bruyere,--"all passions are deceitful; they
+disguise themselves as much as possible from the public eye; they hide
+from themselves.  There is no vice which has not a counterfeit
+resemblance to some virtue, and which does not profit by it."
+
+The whole life of Derues bears testimony to the truth of this
+observation.  An avaricious poisoner, he attracted his victims by the
+pretence of fervent and devoted piety, and drew them into the snare where
+he silently destroyed them.
+
+As soon as his head was covered, the executioner gave the signal.  One
+would have thought a very few blows would have finished so frail a being,
+but he seemed as hard to kill as the venomous reptiles which must be
+crushed and cut to pieces before life is extinct, and the 'coup de grace'
+was found necessary.  The executioner uncovered his head and showed the
+confessor that the eyes were closed and that the heart had ceased to
+beat.  The body was then removed from the cross, the hands and feet
+fastened together, and it was thrown on the funeral pile. While the
+execution was proceeding the people applauded.  On the morrow they bought
+up the fragments of bone, and hastened to buy lottery tickets, in the
+firm conviction that these precious relics would bring luck to the
+fortunate possessors!
+
+
+
+
+
+THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK
+ironm10.txt or ironm.zip [Etext #2751]
+
+Voltaire added a few further details which had been given him by M.  de
+Bernaville, the successor of M. de Saint-Mars, and by an old physician of
+the Bastille who had attended the prisoner whenever his health required a
+doctor, but who had never seen his face, although he had "often seen his
+tongue and his body."  He also asserted that M. de Chamillart was the
+last minister who was in the secret, and that when his son-in-law,
+Marshal de la Feuillade, besought him on his knees, de Chamillart being
+on his deathbed, to tell him the name of the Man in the Iron Mask, the
+minister replied that he was under a solemn oath never to reveal the
+secret, it being an affair of state.  To all these details, which the
+marshal acknowledges to be correct, Voltaire adds a remarkable note:
+"What increases our wonder is, that when the unknown captive was sent to
+the Iles Sainte-Marguerite no personage of note disappeared from the
+European stage."
+
+
+
+
+
+
+JOAN OF NAPLES
+jonap10.txt or jonap10.zip [Etext #2750]
+
+The next morning the people were beforehand with the executioner, loudly
+demanding their prey.  All the national troops and mercenaries that the
+judicial authorities could command were echelonned in the streets,
+opposing a sort of dam to the torrent of the raging crowd.  The sudden
+insatiable cruelty that too often degrades human nature had awaked in the
+populace: all heads were turned with hatred and frenzy; all imaginations
+inflamed with the passion for revenge; groups of men and women, roaring
+like wild beasts, threatened to knock down the walls of the prison, if
+the condemned were not handed over to them to take to the place of
+punishment: a great murmur arose, continuous, ever the same, like the
+growling of thunder: the queen's heart was petrified with terror.
+
+That same evening the sentence, to the great joy of all, was proclaimed,
+that Joan was innocent and acquitted of all concern in the assassination
+of her husband.  But as her conduct after the event and the indifference
+she had shown about pursuing the authors of the crime admitted of no
+valid excuse, the pope declared that there were plain traces of magic,
+and that the wrong-doing attributed to Joan was the result of some
+baneful charm cast upon her, which she could by no possible means resist.
+
+
+
+
+
+MARTIN GUERRE
+mguer10.txt or mguer10.zip [Etext #2752]
+
+On the 10th of, August 1557, an inauspicious day in the history of
+France, the roar of cannon was still heard at six in the evening in the
+plains of St. Quentin; where the French army had just been destroyed by
+the united troops of England and Spain, commanded by the famous Captain
+Emanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy.  An utterly beaten infantry, the
+Constable Montmorency and several generals taken prisoner, the Duke
+d'Enghien mortally wounded, the flower of the nobility cut down like
+grass,--such were the terrible results of a battle which plunged France
+into mourning, and which would have been a blot on the reign of Henry II,
+had not the Duke of Guise obtained a brilliant revenge the following
+year.
+
+This sentence substituted the gallows for the decapitation decreed by the
+first judge, inasmuch as the latter punishment was reserved for criminals
+of noble birth, while hanging was inflicted on meaner persons.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ALI PACHA
+alpac10.txt or alpac10.zip [Etext #2753]
+
+Albania was one of the most difficult provinces to manage.  Its
+inhabitants were poor, brave, and, the nature of the country was
+mountainous and inaccessible.  The pashas had great difficulty in
+collecting tribute, because the people were given to fighting for their
+bread.  Whether Mahomedans or Christians, the Albanians were above all
+soldiers.  Descended on the one side from the unconquerable Scythians, on
+the other from the ancient Macedonians, not long since masters of the
+world; crossed with Norman adventurers brought eastwards by the great
+movement of the Crusades; they felt the blood of warriors flow in their
+veins, and that war was their element.  Sometimes at feud with one
+another, canton against canton, village against village, often even house
+against house; sometimes rebelling against the government their sanjaks;
+sometimes in league with these against the sultan; they never rested from
+combat except in an armed peace.  Each tribe had its military
+organisation, each family its fortified stronghold, each man his gun on
+his shoulder.  When they had nothing better to do, they tilled their
+fields, or mowed their neighbours', carrying off, it should be noted, the
+crop; or pastured their, flocks, watching the opportunity to trespass
+over pasture limits.  This was the normal and regular life of the
+population of Epirus, Thesprotia, Thessaly, and Upper Albania.
+
+
+
+
+
+MURAT
+murat10.txt or murat10.zip [Etext #2755]
+
+On the 18th June, 1815, at the very moment when the destiny of Europe was
+being decided at Waterloo, a man dressed like a beggar was silently
+following the road from Toulon to Marseilles.
+
+Arrived at the entrance of the Gorge of Ollioulles, he halted on a little
+eminence from which he could see all the surrounding country; then either
+because he had reached the end of his journey, or because, before
+attempting that forbidding, sombre pass which is called the Thermopylae
+of Provence, he wished to enjoy the magnificent view which spread to the
+southern horizon a little longer, he went and sat down on the edge of the
+ditch which bordered the road, turning his back on the mountains which
+rise like an amphitheatre to the north of the town, and having at his
+feet a rich plain covered with tropical vegetation, exotics of a
+conservatory, trees and flowers quite unknown in any other part of
+France.
+
+
+
+
+
+THE COUNTESS OF SAINT GERAN
+geran10.txt or geran10.zip [Etext #2754]
+
+"Could not, for instance," said the marquis, "a confinement be effected
+without pain?"
+
+"I don't know about that, but this I do" know, that I shall take very
+good care not to practise any method contrary to the laws of nature."
+
+"You are deceiving me: you are acquainted with this method, you have
+already practised it upon a certain person whom I could name to you."
+
+"Who has dared to calumniate me thus?  I operate only after the decision
+of the Faculty.  God forbid that I should be stoned by all the
+physicians, and perhaps expelled from France!"
+
+
+
+
+
+MARQUISE DE BRINVILLIERS
+brinv10.txt or brinv10.zip [Etext #2756]
+
+When the prayer was done and the doctor raised his head, he saw before
+him the executioner wiping his face.  "Well, sir," said he, "was not that
+a good stroke?  I always put up a prayer on these occasions, and God has
+always assisted me; but I have been anxious for several days about this
+lady.  I had six masses said, and I felt strengthened in hand and heart."
+He then pulled out a bottle from under his cloak, and drank a dram; and
+taking the body under one arm, all dressed as it was, and the head in his
+other hand, the eyes still bandaged, he threw both upon the faggots,
+which his assistant lighted.
+
+"The next day," says Madame de Sevigne, "people were looking for the
+charred bones of Madame de Brinvilliers, because they said she was a
+saint."
+
+
+
+
+
+MARQUISE DE GANGES
+gange10.txt or gange10.zip [Etext #2758]
+
+The beginnings of this union were perfectly happy; the marquis was in
+love for the first time, and the marquise did not remember ever to have
+been in love.  A son and a daughter came to complete their happiness.
+The marquise had entirely forgotten the fatal prediction, or, if she
+occasionally thought of it now, it was to wonder that she could ever have
+believed in it.  Such happiness is not of this world, and when by chance
+it lingers here a while, it seems sent rather by the anger than by the
+goodness of God.  Better, indeed, would it be for him who possesses and
+who loses it, never to have known it.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+VANINKA
+vanin10.txt or vanin10.zip [Etext #2757]
+
+About the end of the reign of the Emperor Paul I--that is to say, towards
+the middle of the first year of the nineteenth century--just as four
+o'clock in the afternoon was sounding from the church of St.  Peter and
+St. Paul, whose gilded vane overlooks the ramparts of the fortress, a
+crowd, composed of all sorts and conditions of people, began to gather in
+front of a house which belonged to General Count Tchermayloff, formerly
+military governor of a fair-sized town in the government of Pultava.  The
+first spectators had been attracted by the preparations which they saw
+had been made in the middle of the courtyard for administering torture
+with the knout.  One of the general's serfs, he who acted as barber, was
+to be the victim.
+
+Although this kind of punishment was a common enough sight in St.
+Petersburg, it nevertheless attracted all passers-by when it was publicly
+administered.  This was the occurrence which had caused a crowd, as just
+mentioned, before General Tchermayloff's house.
+
+
+
+
+
+THE COMPLETE CELEBRATED CRIMES BY ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE
+dcrim10.txt or dcrim10.zip [Etext #2760]
+
+Air of frank good-nature which Macchiavelli so greatly admired
+All passions are deceitful
+Always in extremes, whether of enthusiasm or hatred
+Besieged on all sides by mediocrities
+Danger of driving the vanquished to despair
+Determination to exact his strict legal rights
+Disdainful words which brand as deeply as a red-hot iron
+Doubting spirit which was unhappily so prevalent
+Forgetfulness is the best cure for the losses we suffer
+Fundamentally nothing is great, you see, and nothing small
+God wills not that a sinner die, but that he live and pay
+Influence he had gained over the narrow-minded
+Interpolated according to the needs of the prosecution
+Italy and Greece seemed to be mere suburbs of Venice
+Jesus, Son of David and Mary
+Knew how short was the space between a prison and a tomb
+Let her keep the pearl for the same price she had paid for it
+Madly in love-that is to say silly and blind
+Method contrary to the laws of nature
+More absurd the reports, the more credence did they gain
+No vice which has not a counterfeit resemblance to some virtue
+Prejudices, which are sacred to the vulgar
+Put to the question ordinary and extraordinary
+So much a lover that love imposed silence on ambition
+The last thing I should desire would be to be as dead as he
+To draw back was to acknowledge one's guilt
+Too commonplace ever to arrive at a high position
+Vanity and self-satisfaction
+Very clear-sighted we can be about things that don't touch us
+Without fear of being called to account
+
+
+
+
+
+End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of Widger's Quotations
+from Alexandre Dumas, pere: Celebrated Crimes, by David Widger
+
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