Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas Chapter 32 Page 12

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“To you? What could she have done to you? Come, tell me!”

“She had seduced and ruined my brother, a priest.

She had fled with him from her convent.”

“With your brother?”

“Yes, my brother was her first lover, and she caused his death. Oh, father, do not look in that way at me! Oh, I am guilty, then; you will not pardon me?”

The monk recovered his usual expression.

“Yes, yes,” he said, “I will pardon you if you tell me all.”

“Oh!” cried the executioner, “all! all! all!”