Do you know that
he is so like in every lineament, look, and gesture, that, against
the, clearest light of reason, I cannot in my mind separate the one
from the other, and have a certain indefinable expression on my
mind that they are one and the same being, or that the one was a
prototype of the other."
"If there is an earthly crime," said Mrs. Calvert, "for the due
punishment of which the Almighty may be supposed to subvert
the order of nature, it is fratricide. But tell me, dear friend, did
you remark to what the subtile and hellish villain was
endeavouring to prompt the assassin?"
"No, I could not comprehend it. My senses were altogether so
bewildered that I thought they had combined to deceive me, and I
gave them no credit."
"Then bear me: I am almost certain he was using every
persuasion to induce him to make away with his mother; and I
likewise conceive that I heard the incendiary give his consent!"
"This is dreadful. Let us speak and think no more about it, till we
see the issue. In the meantime, let us do that which is our
bounden duty--go and divulge all that we know relating to this
foul murder.
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