“the skull

was still so

beautiful”

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Chamber

“how could you

know... this place

is the Castle of

Murder?”

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Chamber

Muse’s

“skeletal,

enigmatic

grace”

“I was

seventeen and

knew nothing

of the world

“I’m sure I

want to marry

him” not love

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“hair that still

bore the kinks

of the plaits”

freed from.

“My heart swelled

and ached so during

the Liebestod that I

thought I must

truly love him.”

“Yes. I did. On

his arm, all

eyes were

upon me.”

“I thought: My

cup runneth

over”

“everyone

stared at me.

And at his

wedding gift.”

“A choker of

rubies... like an

extraordinarily

precious slit

throat”

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Chamber

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“That night at

the opera comes

back to me

even now...”

Marquis “eye of

a connoisseur

inspecting

horseflesh”

“I sensed in myself

a potentiality for

corruption that

took my breath

away”

“The next

day, we were

married”

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Chamber

“Into marriage,

into exile”

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“I drew my

furs about me”

“I swear to you,

I had never

been vain until

I met him”

“the line, of

course, was dead.

Dead as his

wives.”

Castle “faery

solitude”

“turrets of

misty blue”

“That lovely,

sad, sea-siren

of a place!”

“black

fringes of his

beard”

Blessing in Breton

“That I did not

understand. That

he, smiling, refused

to interpret.”

“Enough! No;

more!”

Lilies “that

are white.

And stain

you.”

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Chamber

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“Have the

nasty

pictures

scared Baby?”

“A dozen

husbands

impaled a

dozen brides”

Virginity “my

innocence that

captivated him”

“unknowingness”

“Yes. Of course, I

said. Certainly.

He seemed to

know that I had

smiled.”

“striking

resemblance between

the act of love and

the ministrations of a torturer”

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