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The Monk; a romance

CHAPTER I
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The first thing which He produced was a small wooden Crucifix: He sank upon his knees, gazed upon it mournfully, and cast his eyes towards heaven.

He seemed to be praying devoutly.

At length He bowed his head respectfully, kissed the Crucifix thrice, and quitted his kneeling posture.

He next drew from the Chest a covered Goblet: With the liquor which it contained, and which appeared to be blood, He sprinkled the floor, and then dipping in it one end of the Crucifix, He described a circle in the middle of the room.

Round about this He placed various reliques, sculls, thigh-bones &c; I observed, that He disposed them all in the forms of Crosses.


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