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I am indeed the personage you know. / As for my wife, -- what happened long ago -- / You have a right to question me, as I / Am bound to answer.
("Son, a fit reply! " / The monk half spoke, half ground through his clenched teeth, / At the confession-grate I knelt beneath.)