Poe, Edgar Allen - The Purloined Letter

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THE PURLOINED LETTER
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The Purloined Letter
By Edgar Allan Poe
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THE PURLOINED LETTER
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The Purloined Letter
Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio.
-- Seneca
At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18--, I was enjoying the
twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in company with my friend, C. Auguste
Dupin, in his little back library, or book-closet, au troisième, No. 33 Rue Dunôt,
Faubourg St. Germain. For one hour at least we had maintained a profound silence; while
each, to any casual observer, might have seemed intently and exclusively occupied with
the curling eddies of smoke that oppressed the atmosphere of the chamber. For myself,
however, I was mentally discussing certain topics which had formed matter for
conversation between us at an earlier period of the evening; I mean the affair of the Rue
Morgue, and the mystery attending the murder of Marie Rogêt. I looked upon it,
therefore, as something of a coincidence, when the door of our apartment was thrown
open and admitted our old acquaintance, Monsieur G----, the Prefect of the Parisian
police.
We gave him a hearty welcome; for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as
of the contemptible about the man, and we had not seen him for
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several years. We had been sitting in the dark, and Dupin now arose for the purpose of
lighting a lamp, but sat down again, without doing so, upon G.'s saying that he had called
to consult us, or rather to ask the opinion of my friend, about some official business
which had occasioned a great deal of trouble.
"If it is any point requiring reflection," observed Dupin, as he forbore to enkindle the
wick, "we shall examine it to better purpose in the dark."
"That is another one of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had the fashion of calling
everything "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute
legion of "oddities."
"Very true," said Dupin, as he supplied his visitor with a pipe, and rolled toward him a
comfortable chair.
"And what is the difficulty now?" I asked. "Nothing more in the assassination way I
hope?"
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