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Ring and the Book by Robert Browning — 166 episodes

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Chapter 1 - The Ring and the Book: "Do you see this ring?"

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Chapter 1. "Word for word, So ran the title-page"

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Chapter 1. "So was the trial at end, do you suppose?"

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Chapter 1. "Well, British Public, ye who like me not,"

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Chapter 1. "This was it from, my fancy with those facts,"

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Chapter 1. "Enough of me!"

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Chapter 1. "Then, yet another day let come and go,"

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Chapter 1. "Also hear Caponsacchi who comes next,"

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Chapter 1. "Then, since a Trial ensued, a touch o' the same"

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Chapter 1. "Then must speak Guido yet a second time,"

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Chapter 1. "Such, British Public, ye who like me not,"

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Chapter 2 - Half-Rome: "What, you, Sir, come too? (Just the man I'd meet.)"

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Chapter 2. "From dawn till now that it is growing dusk,"

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Chapter 2. "These wretched Comparini were once gay"

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Chapter 2. "He waited and learned waiting, thirty years;"

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Chapter 2. "They went to Arezzo,--Pietro and his spouse,"

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Chapter 2. "I see the comment ready on your lip,"

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Chapter 2. "This makes the first act of the farce"

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Chapter 2. "Leave it thus, and now revert"

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Chapter 2. "So it went on and on till--who was right?"

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Chapter 2. "Sir, what's the sequel?"

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Chapter 2. "Therefore to Rome with the clear case"

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Chapter 2. "The Canon Caponsacchi, then, was sent"

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Chapter 2. "Come, here's the last drop does its worst to wound,"

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Chapter 2. "But with a certain issue: no dispute"

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Chapter 3 - The Other Half-Rome: "Another day that finds her living yet"

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Chapter 3. "Truth lies between: there's anyhow a child"

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Chapter 3. "Adam-like, Pietro sighed and said no more"

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Chapter 3. "So--giving now his great flap-hat a gloss"

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Chapter 3. "Then with the great air did he kiss"

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Chapter 3. "And faith here made the mountains move."

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Chapter 3. "Who could gainsay this just and right award?"

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Chapter 3. "In short, he also took the middle course"

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Chapter 3. "This is why;"

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Chapter 3. "When first, pursuant to his plan, there sprung"

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Chapter 3. "All was determined and performed at once"

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Chapter 3. "Guido's tale begins--"

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Chapter 3. "So was the case concluded then and there"

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Chapter 3. "The priest went to his relegation-place"

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Chapter 3. "You, What would you answer?"

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Chapter 3. ""Come in," bade poor Violante cheerfully"

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Chapter 4 - Tertium Quid: "True, Excellency--as his Highness says"

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Chapter 4. "What's his resource? He asks and straight obtains"

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Chapter 4. "Accordingly, when time was come about"

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Chapter 4. "Indeed the prize was simply full to a fault"

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Chapter 4. "Said and done."

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Chapter 4. "On the other hand "Not so!" Guido retorts"

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Chapter 4. "On the other hand, so much is easily said"

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Chapter 4. "But then this is the wife's--Pompilia's tale"

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Chapter 4. "Then, look into his own account o' the case!"

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Chapter 4. "Guido rejoins--"Did the other end o' the tale"

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Chapter 4. "Is it settled so far?"

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Chapter 4. "And, as they left by one door,"

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Chapter 4. "At this discrepancy of judgments--mad"

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Chapter 5 - Count Guido Franceschini: "Thanks, Sir, but, should it please the reverend Court"

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Chapter 5. "I am representative of a great line"

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Chapter 5. "So I was."

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Chapter 5. "Now, Paul's advice was weighty: priests should know:"

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Chapter 5. "So much for them so far: now for myself"

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Chapter 5. "Such was the starting; now of the further step."

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Chapter 5. ""Far from that! No, you took the opposite course,"

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Chapter 5. "So much For the terrible effect of threatening, Sirs!"

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Chapter 5. "Oh, but we did not write a single word!"

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Chapter 5. "I played the man as I best might, bade friends"

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Chapter 5. "Now,--I see my lords Shift in their seat"

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Chapter 5. ""Nay," said the letter, "but you have just that!"

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Chapter 5. "Festive bells--everywhere the Feast o' the Babe"

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Chapter 5. "But now Health is returned, and sanity of soul"

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Chapter 5. "Then I proceed a step, come with clean hands"

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Chapter 6 - Giuseppe Caponsacchi: "Answer you, Sirs? Do I understand aright?"

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Chapter 6. "Men, for the last time, what do you want with me?"

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Chapter 6. "I begin."

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Chapter 6. "So I became a priest: those terms changed all"

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Chapter 6. "Sirs, ere the week was out,"

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Chapter 6. "I questioned--lifting half the woman's mask"

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Chapter 6. "So, I went: crossed street and street: "The next street's turn,"

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Chapter 6. "I answered, "It shall be when it can be."

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Chapter 6. "I' the grey of dawn it was I found myself"

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Chapter 6. "There she stood--leaned there, for the second time,"

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Chapter 6. "For the first hour We both were silent in the night, I know"

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Chapter 6. "We did go on all night; but at its close"

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Chapter 6. "Suddenly I saw The old tower"

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Chapter 6. "She started up, stood erect, face to face"

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Chapter 6. "When we were parted,--shall I go on there?"

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Chapter 6. "And I was just set down to study these"

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Chapter 6. "I have done with being judged."

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Chapter 6. "Why, Sirs, what's this? Why, this is sorry and strange!"

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Chapter 6. "Sirs, I am quiet again. You see, we are"

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Chapter 7 - Pompilia: "I am just seventeen years and five months old"

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Chapter 7. "On second thoughts, I hope he will regard"

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Chapter 7. "Six days ago when it was New Year's-day"

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Chapter 7. "There was a fancy came"

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Chapter 7. "When I saw nothing more, the next three weeks"

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Chapter 7. "All since is one blank"

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Chapter 7. "I felt there was just one thing Guido claimed"

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Chapter 7. "So, home I did go; so, the worst befell"

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Chapter 7. "I had been miserable three drear years"

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Chapter 7. "There may have elapsed a week"

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Chapter 7. "I returned,"

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Chapter 7. "Now, understand here, by no means mistake!"

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Chapter 7. "Off she went--"May he not refuse, that's all"

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Chapter 7. "And this man, men call sinner? Jesus Christ!"

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Chapter 7. "You see, I will not have the service fail!"

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Chapter 7. "Well, and there is more! Yes, my end of breath"

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Chapter 8 - Dominus Hyacinthus de Archangelis Pauperum Procurator: "Ah, my Giacinto, he's no ruddy rogue,"

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Chapter 8. "Whew!"

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Chapter 8. "Yet what do I name "little and a leak?"

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Chapter 8. "So, doubtless, had I needed argue here"

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Chapter 8. "May Gigia have remembered, nothing stings"

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Chapter 8. "Have I proved"

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Chapter 8. "Pause and breathe!"

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Chapter 8. "And now, sea widens and the coast is clear."

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Chapter 8. "Here fall to be considered those same six"

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Chapter 8. "Third aggravation: that our act was done--"

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Chapter 8. "But wait awhile!"

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Chapter 8. "Talking of which flea"

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Chapter 8. "And now, thou excellent the Governor!"

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Chapter 9 - Juris Doctor Johannes-Baptista Bottinius: "Had I God's leave, how I would alter things!"

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Chapter 9. "End we exordium, Phaebus plucks my ear!"

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Chapter 9. "For lo, advancing Hymen and his pomp!"

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Chapter 9. "Enough! Prepare,"

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Chapter 9. "From all which, I deduce--the lady here"

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Chapter 9. "Thus Would I defend the step,--were the thing true"

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Chapter 9. "Fit place, methinks,"

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Chapter 9. "And so he was contented--one must do"

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Chapter 9. "It happened once,--begins this foolish Jew,"

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Chapter 9. "Forgive me this digression--that I stand"

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Chapter 9. "Yet doubt he dares!"

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Chapter 9. "Your "this," friend, is extraneous to the law,"

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Chapter 10 - The Pope: "Like to Ahasuerus, that shrewd prince,"

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Chapter 10. "But, after John, came Sergius, reaffirmed"

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Chapter 10. "O pale departure, dim disgrace of day!"

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Chapter 10. "This is why Guido is found reprobate."

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Chapter 10. "He purposes this marriage, I remark,"

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Chapter 10. "Whereby the man so far attains his end"

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Chapter 10. "So is the murder managed, sin conceived"

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Chapter 10. "Nay, more i' the background, yet? Unnoticed forms"

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Chapter 10. "And surely not so very much apart"

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Chapter 10. "So do I see, pronounce on all and some"

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Chapter 10. "O Thou,--as represented here to me"

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Chapter 10. "Neither does this astonish at the end,"

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Chapter 10. "And is this little all that was to be?"

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Chapter 10. "How should I answer this Euripides?"

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Chapter 10. "Still, I stand here, not off the stage though close"

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Chapter 11 - Guido: "You are the Cardinal Acciaiuoli, and you,"

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Chapter 11. "Life!"

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Chapter 11. "That's Nature's way of loosing cord!--but Art,"

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Chapter 11. "I say that, long ago, when things began,"

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Chapter 11. "And the Pope breaks talk with ambassador,"

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Chapter 11. "Enough of the hypocrites. But you, Sirs, you--"

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Chapter 11. "Yes, presently...what hour is fleeting now?"

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Chapter 11. "Why must your nephews begin breathing spice"

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Chapter 11. "Panciatichi!"

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Chapter 11. "All which just means,"

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Chapter 11. "'Tis I preach while the hour-glass runs and runs!"

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Chapter 11. "Just this immaculate official stares,"

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Chapter 11. "And then my Trial,--'tis my Trial that bites"

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Chapter 11. "Thus The time's arrived when, ancient Roman-like,"

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Chapter 11. "So, let death atone!"

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Chapter 11. "You too are petrifactions of a kind:"

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Chapter 12 - The Book and the Ring: "Here were the end, had anything an end:"

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Chapter 12. "Now for the thing; no sooner the decree"

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Chapter 12. "And so forth,--follow name and place and date:"

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Chapter 12. "I looked that Rome should have the natural gird"

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Chapter 12. "For me, the weary and the worn, who prompt"

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Chapter 12. "Alack, Bottini, what is my next word"