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Excerpt from The Maniac's Confession: A Fragment of a Tale His pleasure withdrawn himself from their fraternity, they become no longer subservient to his purposes, inveighs against in the most contemptuous language, because they were outlaws - choosing to forget v hat he himself had but lately been - the very woman, for whom at one moment he makes such a display of affection, at another, he re viles in bitterest invective, stigmatising her name with every Opprobrious epithet, and wherefore? Why, because, after a lapse of many years, when she might well have supposed him lost to her, to save a famishing father, she marries a man, whom though she may not have loved, she must have respected, because he was virtu-o ous, and to whom she must have felt grateful, because he was fond of, and cherished her; but Bertram, does not choose to listen to any thing that she may have to say, in her own defence - no - though herding with the very refuse of society, still she should have regarded him as a thing of light; though dead, at least to her, she should have been wedded to his memory - though a father's life depended upon her uniting herself with Aldobrand, she should rather have seen that father perish, than insult the Spirit of her departed lover, by bestowing her hand upon the man it hates - well, for these weighty reasons, he pronounces upon her the blessing of his curse, and the curse-of his blessing, hopes that her child may stab her withits smiles: - a keener malediction never wasim. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.