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Updated: May 15, 2025

I cannot think traitors die in their treason so calmly. Thou hast been trained from thy post by some deep guile some well-devised stratagem the cry of some distressed maiden has caught thine ear, or the laughful look of some merry one has taken thine eye. Never blush for it; we have all been led aside by such gear. Come, I pray thee, make a clean conscience of it to me, instead of the priest.

Sir Walter Scott - The Talisman