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"Think of vengeance, and a demon will at once furnish you a

weapon. Hardly had I thought of it, when the demon sent the

Muscovites. I stood gazing; you know how they stormed your

castle.

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"For it is false that I was in any league with the Muscovites.

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"I gazed; various thoughts passed through my head: at first with

a stupid laugh I gazed as a child upon a burning house; then I

felt a murderous joy, expecting that speedily it would begin to

blaze and totter; at times I was prompted to leap in and save

her-even the Pantler--

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