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Madam, ’tis you that rob me of my lord.
Christopher Marlowe • Edward II Revised (New Mermaids)
“William Sorley.”
Deborah Harkness • The Black Bird Oracle
Filippo, Duke of Milan, who slew his wife and painted her lips with a scarlet poison that her lover might suck death from the dead thing he fondled;
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray

contrivance,
Elizabeth Gilbert • The Signature of All Things: A Novel
‘She was the wife of John Bell, who owned Lowlands until his death in 1889, and we’ve never known anything more about her: it’s as if she’s been cut out of time. We have records of their marriage, but not of her death; we have no portraits of her anywhere, and when the house and contents were sold none of her possessions were listed in the inventor
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