Dr. Mortimer turned the manuscript to the light, and read in a high, crackling voice the following curious, old-world narrative.
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Old-world
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classical motif
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neoclassicromanesque cloister
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What might not have happened to men? What if cruelty had grown into a common passion? What if in this interval the race had lost its manliness, and had developed into something inhuman, unsympathetic, and overwhelmingly powerful? I might seem some old-world savage animal, only the more dreadful and disgusting for our common likeness— a foul creature to be incontinently slain.
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