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660 B
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660 B
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The “Red Death” had long devastated the country.
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No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous.
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Blood was its Avator and its seal—
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the redness and the horror of blood.
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There were sharp pains,
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and sudden dizziness,
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and then profuse bleeding at the pores,
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with dissolution.
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The scarlet stains upon the body
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and especially upon the face of the victim,
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were the pest ban
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which shut him out from the aid
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and from the sympathy of his fellow-men.
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And the whole seizure,
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progress and termination of the disease,
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were the incidents of half an hour.
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