Billy's agony, mainly proceeding from a generous young heart's virgin experience of the diabolical incarnate and effective in some men - the tension of that agony was over now. (Herman Melville)

Billy's agony, mainly proceeding from a generous young heart's virgin experience of the diabolical incarnate and effective in some men - the tension of that agony was over now.

Herman Melville

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