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Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist

CHAPTER IX
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Ludlow's menaces still rung in my ears, and appalled my heart.

How should I be able to shun them?
By concealing from every one what I concealed from him?
How was my concealment of such a faculty to be suspected or proved?
Unless I betrayed myself, who could betray me?
In this state of mind, I resolved to confess myself to Ludlow in the way that he required, reserving only the secret of this faculty.

Awful, indeed, said I, is the crisis of my fate.

If Ludlow's declarations are true, a horrid catastrophe awaits me: but as fast as my resolutions were shaken, they were confirmed anew by the recollection--Who can betray me but myself?
If I deny, who is there can prove?
Suspicion can never light upon the truth.

If it does, it can never be converted into certainty.
Even my own lips cannot confirm it, since who will believe my testimony?
By such illusions was I fortified in my desperate resolution.


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