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A character in The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I did what ought to be done to a traitor!” he replied. “I did what your eyes bade me do, when I asked them with mine, as I held the wretch over the precipice!
— Donatello (dialogue) · Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun (1860), Chapter XIX
Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him.
— Kenyon (dialogue) · Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun (1860), Chapter L
I know, but may not tell,” replied Kenyon, smiling mysteriously. “On that point, at all events, there shall be not one word of explanation.
— Kenyon (dialogue) · Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun (1860), Conclusion

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