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Then, a great shadow -- more subtle than an ordinary shadow, from whose borders other shadows hang in festoons -- traces itself upon the ground.
It is the Devil, resting against the roof of the cell and carrying under his wings -- like a gigantic bat that is suckling its young -- the Seven Deadly Sins, whose grinning heads disclose themselves confusedly.