After that worde, better is it to dey than lyve false, and al wolde perverted people false reporte make

Major Pendennis, having read with difficulty his nephew’s name under Mr. Warrington’s on the wall of No. 6, found still greater difficulty in climbing the abominable black stairs, up the banisters of which, which contributed their damp exudations to his gloves, he groped painfully until he came to the third story.

In the Middle Ages war parties sometimes dropped plague-ridden corpses into their enemies’ village wells.

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