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The Innocents Abroad
Part 2 of 6

CHAPTER XVIII
11/18

I went out at the window, and I carried the sash along with me.

I did not need the sash, but it was handier to take it than it was to leave it, and so I took it .-- I was not scared, but I was considerably agitated.
When I reached home, they whipped me, but I enjoyed it.

It seemed perfectly delightful.

That man had been stabbed near the office that afternoon, and they carried him in there to doctor him, but he only lived an hour.

I have slept in the same room with him often since then--in my dreams.
Now we will descend into the crypt, under the grand altar of Milan Cathedral, and receive an impressive sermon from lips that have been silent and hands that have been gestureless for three hundred years.
The priest stopped in a small dungeon and held up his candle.


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