Edgar Allan Poe: The Purloined Letter

0. The Purloined Letter (continued)

"How? did you put any thing particular in it?"

"Why - it did not seem altogether right to leave the interior blank - that would have been insulting. D--, at Vienna once, did me an evil turn, which I told him, quite good-humoredly, that I should remember. So, as I knew he would feel some curiosity in regard to the identity of the person who had outwitted him, I thought it a pity not to give him a clue. He is well acquainted with my MS., and I just copied into the middle of the blank sheet the words -

" '-- -- Un dessein si funeste, S'il n'est digne d'Atrée, est digne de Thyeste.

They are to be found in Crebillon's 'Atrée.' "

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