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Chapter Six
XXVIII

Foes! Is it long since bloodthirst turned them away from one another?

Is it long since they shared their hours of leisure, 4 meals, thoughts, and doings in friendliness? Now, wickedly, similar to hereditary foes, as in a frightful, enigmatic dream, 8 in silence, for each other they prepare destruction coolly… Should they not burst out laughing while their hand is not yet crimsoned? 12 Should they not amiably part?… But wildly beau-monde enmity is of false shame afraid.