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a book of scoundrels(流浪之书)-第35部分

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purchased by a profound silence。  Here was the Abb he received with a grin
complacent as Shylock's; for was he not conscious that when he liked the
pound of flesh was his own!                            
     With a fiend's duplicity he laid his plans of ruin and death。  The
Marquise; swayed to his will; received him secretly in the blue room
(whose very colour suggests a guilty intrigue); though never; upon the oath
of an Abb's
dictation; and when her husband returned to St。 Amand he was instantly
thrust into prison。  Nothing remained but to cajole the sons into an
expressed hatred of their father; and the last enormity was committed by a
masterpiece of cunning。  ‘Your father's one chance of escape;' argued this
villain in a cassock; ‘is to be proved an inhuman ruffian。  Swear that he
beat you unmercifully and you will save him from the guillotine。'  All the
dupes learned their lesson with a certainty which reflects infinite credit
upon the Abb's character
was revealed before he parted his lips in speech。  Unmoved he stood and
immovable; he treated the imprecations of the Marquis with a cold disdain;
as the burden of proof grew heavy on his back; he shrugged his shoulders
in weary indifference。  He told his monstrous story with a cynical
contempt; which has scarce its equal in the history of crime; and priest; as
he was; he proved that he did not yield to the Marquis himself in the
Rabelaisian amplitude of his vocabulary。  He brought charges against the
weird world of Presles with an insouciance and brutality which defeated
their own aim。  He described the vices of his master and the sins of the
servants in a slang which would sit more gracefully upon an idle roysterer
than upon a pious Abb
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