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Quotation from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
“we four, we once did condemn, judge and slay a human being whom we had not any right to cut off from this world, although apparently fitter for hell than for this life”
Twenty Years After, Chapter XXVIII (The Place Royale), trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation
At the night reconciliation Athos names the old execution of Milady as a bond between them closer than friendship, perhaps a bond of crime.
Citation: "we four, we once did condemn, judge and slay a human being whom we had not any right to cut off from this world, although apparently fitter for hell than for this life" — Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After, Chapter XXVIII (The Place Royale), trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation. (id dumas-twenty-years-after-q6)
