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Yes, yes; what of him?

He is murdered, Basil!

What do you say? Murdered?

I call it murdered;—they have executed him without law or judgment.

Who? Who has executed him?

Yes, who? How can I say who? My mother tells the story thus: Clemazius's mother-in-law was inflamed with an impure love for her daughter's husband; but as she could not move him to wrong, she gained some back-stairs access to the palace

What palace?

My mother writes only "the palace."

Well? And then?

It is only known that she presented a very costly jewel to a great and powerful lady to procure a death-warrant