... her, and had even fixed upon the place and style of his suicide. But the shaft of Fate[FN#111] strikes down the vulture sailing above the clouds, and follows the worm into the bowels of the ... of life; and that kings, as the administrators of criminal justice, are the greatest of sinners. He professed the five vows of total abstinence from falsehood, eating flesh or fish, theft, drinking ... well out of their places. And the beauty of the kokila is its note, of an ugly man knowledge, of a devotee forgiveness, and of a woman her chastity." The Vampire having narrated thus far,...