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Excerpt from Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants: The Last Incarnation of Vautrin
Since the death of Napoleon, circumstances, about which the author must keep Silence, have still farther dissolved the original bond of this secret society, always extraordinary, sometimes sinister, as though it lived in the blackest pages of Mrs. Radcliffe. A somewhat strange permission to relate in his own way a few of the adventures of these men (while respecting cer tain susceptibilities) has only recently been given to him by one of those anonymous heroes to whom all society was once occultly subjected. In this permis sion the writer fancied he detected a vague desire for personal celebrity.
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