The Sorceress of Rome. Gallizier Nathan

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СКАЧАТЬ is it?" Stephania interposed, raising her head questioningly. "I know you have not scrutinized the armour, which encases that fantastic soul, without an effort to discover a flaw."

      "And I have discovered it," Crescentius replied, his heart beating strangely. Stephania herself was leading up to the fatal subject of his visit; but in the depths of his soul he trembled for fear of himself, and wished he had not come.

      "And what have you discovered?" Stephania persisted curiously.

      "The weak spot in the armour," he replied, avoiding her gaze.

      "Is there a remedy?"

      "We lack but the skilful physician."

      Stephania raised herself from her recumbent position. With pale and colourless face she stared at the speaker.

      "Surely – you would not resort to – "

      She paused, her lips refusing to utter the words.

      Crescentius shook his head.

      "If such were my desire, the steel of John of the Catacombs were swifter. No, – it is not like that," he continued musingly, as if testing the ground inch by inch, as he advanced. "A woman's hand must lead the youth to the fateful brink. A woman must enwrap him and entrap him; a woman must cull the hidden secrets from his heart; – a woman must make him forget time and eternity, forget the volcano, on whose crater he stands, – until the great bell of the Capitol shall toll the hour of doom for German dominion in Rome."

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