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The Monk; a romance

CHAPTER I
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Her feasts vied in luxury with Cleopatra's, and Lindenberg became the Theatre of the most unbridled debauchery.

Not satisfied with displaying the incontinence of a Prostitute, She professed herself an Atheist: She took every opportunity to scoff at her monastic vows, and loaded with ridicule the most sacred ceremonies of Religion.
'Possessed of a character so depraved, She did not long confine her affections to one object.

Soon after her arrival at the Castle, the Baron's younger Brother attracted her notice by his strong-marked features, gigantic Stature, and Herculean limbs.

She was not of an humour to keep her inclinations long unknown; But She found in Otto von Lindenberg her equal in depravity.

He returned her passion just sufficiently to increase it; and when He had worked it up to the desired pitch, He fixed the price of his love at his Brother's murder.
The Wretch consented to this horrible agreement.


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