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Wieland; or The Transformation

CHAPTER XXIII
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I opened and found new scope for my curiosity in your books.
One of these was manuscript, and written in characters which essentially agreed with a short-hand system which I had learned from a Jesuit missionary.
"I cannot justify my conduct, yet my only crime was curiosity.

I perused this volume with eagerness.

The intellect which it unveiled, was brighter than my limited and feeble organs could bear.

I was naturally inquisitive as to your ideas respecting my deportment, and the mysteries that had lately occurred.
"You know what you have written.

You know that in this volume the key to your inmost soul was contained.


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