Page 79 - The Raven

of an innocent man, than to keep the
truth to himself and be sent out of the
world as a traitor. So sending word to
the King that he had something to say
of importance to his state, he was led
into his presence,where he first made a
long preamble of the love he had always
borne him; then he went on to tell of
the deception he had practiced on
Liviella in order to give him pleasure;
and then what he had heard from the
doves about the falcon, and how, to
avoid being turned to marble, he had
brought it him, and without revealing
the secret had killed it in order not to
seehim withouteyes.As ____
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