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The Inferno

CHAPTER V
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I, too, was stirred with anguish.

How I had to conceal it, dissimulating every sign of my happiness, locking it hastily away within the coffer of my heart.

At first I was afraid to go to sleep for fear of saying your name in a dream, and often, fighting against the stealthy invasion of sleep, I have leaned on my elbow, and remained with wide-open eyes, watching heroically over my heart.
"I was afraid of being recognised.

I was afraid people would see the purity in which I was bathed.

Yes, purity.


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