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"Freder stood pressed into the background of the arch--so far from the girl that he perceived of her face nothing but the shimmer of its pallor, the wonder of the eyes and the blood-red mouth. His eyes hung upon this blood-red mouth as though it were the middle point of the earth, to which, by eternal law, his blood must pour down. Tantalising was this mouth...All the seven Deadly Sins had such a mouth...The woman on the scarlet-colored beast, who bore the name Babylon on her forehead, had such a mouth...."
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