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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

The deed knots us together, for time and eternity, like the coil of a serpent!

— Miriam (dialogue) · Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun (1860), Chapter XIX

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