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"You have longed for vengeance? You have it now, for you have

been the instrument of God's punishment! With your sword God cut

short my plans. You have tangled the thread of the plot that had

been spun for so many years! The great aim that absorbed my whole

life, my last worldly feeling upon earth, which I fondled and

cherished like my dearest child-that you have slain before the

father's eyes, and I have forgiven you I You!--"