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And to me,
indeed, O Romans, though the letters, the seals, the handwriting, and the confession of each
individual seemed most certain indications and proofs of wickedness, yet their colour, their
eyes, their countenance, their silence, appeared more certain still; for they stood so
stupefied, they kept their eyes so fixed on the ground, at times looking stealthily at one
another, that they appeared now not so much to be informed against by others as to be
informing against themselves.
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