This confirmed our doubts as to whether we might not be monks without knowing it; for the first morning the Abate had given us a key of the great front door by which we could let ourselves in at all hours, without any ringing of bells or calling of porters; so that we felt as if we belonged to the convent.
— from Two Pilgrims' Progress; from fair Florence, to the eternal city of Rome by Joseph Pennell
Have you not earned the place by right of blood, O conqueror of Pharaoh, and did not Pharaoh promise it to you in your sleep?
— from Morning Star by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
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