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But the Count, instead of curses wild,

Only nodded his head and smiled,

As if at the spleen of an angry child;

But the calm was deceitful and sinister!

A lull like the lull of the treacherous sea—

For Hate in that moment had sworn to be

The Golden Leg's sole Legatee,

And that very night to administer!

HER DEATH.