stabber-in-secret

Updated: May 5, 2025

At four o'clock in the afternoon I went out into the street and directed my steps towards the gate of San Zuan. Leaving Padua, I turned and looked for the last time upon her domes and towers. "Farewell, once proud city, now brought low by my deed," I said. "Keep, if thou must, the accursed memory and name of Francis Antony Strelley, gentleman Poisoner of Homes, Stabber-in-secret, Traitor in Love.

Maurice Henry Hewlett - The Fool Errant : Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca