454 Emma's Pick - A Victorian Ghost Story
The History of Literature
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Is Death Near Me? What Sin My Sweet One?
"I have confessed all to my director. I have not hidden my sin from heaven, but I feel that death is near me," he writes. "He plucked all old familiar joys out of my heart and left in it but one weird unholy pleasure, the delight of his presence." He adds: 'Oh, Hector, kill me if you will, for I deserve no mercy at your hands'
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