"yes, donatello, you speak the truth!" said she; "my heart consented to what you did.we two slew yonder wretch.the deed knots us together, for time and eternity, like the coil of a serpent!"they threw one other glance at the heap of death below, to assure themselves that it was there; so like a dream was the whole thing.then they turned from that fatal precipice, and came out of the courtyard, arm in arm, heart in heart.instinctively, they were heedful not to sever themselves so much as a pace or two from one another, for fear of the terror and deadly chill that would thenceforth wait for them m solitude.their deed--the crime which donatello wrought, and miriam accepted on the instant--had wreathed itself, as she said, like a serpent, in inextricable links about both their souls, and drew them into one, by its terrible contractile power.it was closer than a marriage bond.so intimate, in those first moments, was the union, that it seemed as if their new sympathy annihilated all other ties, and that they were released from thechain of humanity; a new sphere, a special law, had been d for them alone.the world could not come near them; they were safe!
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