l followed me. It murmured; and I understood that it desired to confess something. I felt my soul receding into some pleasant and vicious region; and there again I found it waiting for me" (11). The boy feels the need to get away from the priest, but this proves to be impossible. No matter where he ran, the priest was still there – haunting him. In fact, even before the narrator is thoroughly convinced that the priest is
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