"Metzengerstein" by Edgar Allan Poe

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Pestis eram vivus - moriens tua mors ero.
-Martin Luther

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Oops, I left the cursor in the image space when I did the screen cap. Oh well.

To follow along: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2150/2150-h/2150-h.htm#chap4.4

The two French sentences near the start of the story:
"vient de ne pouvoir être seuls."
and
"ne demeure qu'un seul fois dans un corps sensible: au reste-un cheval, un chien, un homme même, n'est que la ressemblance peu tangible de ces animaux."

Damn Poe and his love of French! :-P