"From the foldings of its robe, it brought two children; wretched, abject, frightful, hideous, miserable... A boy and girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish... Where angels might have sat enthroned, devils lurked, and glared out menacing."
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Card 47
Front
"Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing can be erased... 'Have they no refuge or resource?'... 'Are there no prisons?'"
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Card 48
Front
"A solemn Phantom, draped and hooded, coming, like a mist along the ground... The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached... The very air through which this Spirit moved seemed to scatter gloom and mystery... Shrouded in a deep black garment."
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Card 49
Front
"I fear you more than any Spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart."
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Card 50
Front
"I thought he'd never die'... 'It's likely to be a very cheap funeral'... 'I don't mind going if lunch is provided."
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Card 51
Front
"Old Scratch has got his own at last, hey?'... 'So I am told... Cold, isn't it?"
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Card 52
Front
"Bad repute... The people half-naked, drunken, slipshod, ugly... The whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth and misery."
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Card 53
Front
"Heaps of rusty keys, nails, chains, hinges, files, scales, weights, and refuse iron of all kinds. Secrets that few would like to scrutinize were bred and hidden in mountains of unseemly rags, masses of corrupted fat, and sepulchres of bones."
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Card 54
Front
"Every person has a right to take care of themselves. He always did!'... 'No man more so.'".."'A wicked old screw'... 'Why wasn't he natural in his lifetime? If he had been, he'd have had somebody to look after him when he was struck with Death"
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Card 55
Front
"I an't so fond of his company that I'd loiter about him for such things, if he did."..."He frightened every one away from him when he was alive, to profit us when he was dead! Ha, ha, ha!"
