Chapter 13 -THE CONTRACT.

Listen to me and heed me!

If this contract

Thou holdst me to, abide thou the result!

Answer to heaven for what I suffer! act!

Prepare thyself for such calamity

To fall on me, and those whose evil

Have linked them with me, as no past mishap,

However rare and marvellously Sad,

Can parallel.

Knowles-The Hunchback.

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