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Should these pages, at this moment, meet the eyes of one who has become the centre of a circle of disgrace the contaminator of her house the dishonour of her children, no matter what the excuse for her crime no matter what the exchange of her station in the very arms of her lover, in the very cincture of the new ties which she has chosen I call upon her to answer me if the fondest moments of rapture are free from humiliation, though they have forgotten remorse; and if the passion itself of her lover has not become no less the penalty than the recompense of her guilt?
Officers, sufficient in number, listen with sharp ears, and look with keen eyes. The contaminator is sure to be seized and confined till prudence, if not virtue, ties his tongue. Thus he is disarmed, and the better-disposed encourage one another.
Should these pages, at this moment, meet the eyes of one who has become the centre of a circle of disgrace the contaminator of her house the dishonour of her children, no matter what the excuse for her crime no matter what the exchange of her station in the very arms of her lover, in the very cincture of the new ties which she has chosen I call upon her to answer me if the fondest moments of rapture are free from humiliation, though they have forgotten remorse; and if the passion itself of her lover has not become no less the penalty than the recompense of her guilt?
Of course he could not keep the secret, but when some time afterwards they quarrelled, must needs address her as "a vile serpent, contaminator of his honourable race." So she disappeared through the window, but ever afterward hovered about her husband's castle of Lusignan, like a Banshee, whenever one of its lords was about to die.
When Raymond violates this covenant he finds her in her bath with her lower extremities changed into a serpent's tail. The lady appears to be unconscious of her husband's discovery; and nothing happens until, in a paroxysm of anger and grief, arising from the murder of one of his children by another, he cries out upon her as an odious serpent, the contaminator of his race.
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