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Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

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CHAPTER XV.<br />

The discomfited priest <strong>in</strong> a fume- Secret session of an ecclesiasti·<br />

cal council <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> city of New York.<br />

WHEN Dup<strong>in</strong> had a little recovered from his panic,<br />

and began to reflect upon what had taken place, he<br />

became desperately exasperated, and k<strong>in</strong>dled to such<br />

a diabolical rage that he almost exploded. Like a<br />

furious serpent, bl<strong>in</strong>d with excessive venom, he seemed<br />

ready to bite himself; raved and fro<strong>the</strong>d, pronounced<br />

<strong>the</strong> most terrible curses on <strong>the</strong> heads of all engaged <strong>in</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> transaction, by which he had been so defeated and<br />

outraged!<br />

"Be calm, Mr. Dup<strong>in</strong>, be calm," said <strong>the</strong> Abbess,<br />

" and let me dress your wounds; <strong>the</strong>re's no use now<br />

<strong>in</strong> belch<strong>in</strong>g out so many 'words about it-<strong>the</strong>y are all<br />

out of hear<strong>in</strong>g."<br />

" I'll pursue <strong>the</strong> reprobates-hell 's impatient for<br />

<strong>the</strong>m, and cannot wait; to <strong>the</strong> very ends of <strong>the</strong> earth<br />

I'll follow <strong>the</strong>m, to glut my vengeance!"<br />

" I <strong>in</strong>cl<strong>in</strong>e to th<strong>in</strong>k you did follow <strong>the</strong>m once, and<br />

came off bravely! Ra<strong>the</strong>r than run as you did, I<br />

would have fought till doomsday."<br />

"But I was surprised, and hadn't time to pluck up<br />

my courage-and <strong>the</strong> wretch pitched <strong>in</strong>to mo with<br />

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