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Scarlet

Unfilled to over-flowing, as was her bottle of tears, with weeping for the fallen woman, while from her lips to God's ears... said the Mother Superior, “I have completely lost track of how often the Archbishop and I, wearing ashes and cloth sacks, crept into the crypt and made the beast with two backs. Altho' no one can hold a candle, to his Grace, yes, not even the Venerable Abbess, flagellation notwithstanding, as a nun married to You, who committed sacrilege, I'm ashamed to confess, I broke your Lord's Commandment as an unrepentant adulteress.”
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