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Signora Laurentini is an Italian woman who was living at the castle of Udolpho but mysteriously disappeared one day. Her lover, the Marquis De Villeroi, was already married, but she schemed with him to poison his wife, the Marchioness De Villeroi, who is at the center of many of the story’s mysteries. Signora Laurentini eventually joins a convent and becomes Sister Agnes, but even as she grows old and is on the verge of death, she can’t let go of her past, showing the extreme weight that a sin like murder puts on a person’s soul.
Signora Laurentini/Agnes Quotes in The Mysteries of Udolpho
The The Mysteries of Udolpho quotes below are all either spoken by Signora Laurentini/Agnes or refer to Signora Laurentini/Agnes. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Volume 2, Chapter 6
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Emily passed on with faltering steps, and having paused a moment at the door, before she attempted to open it, she then hastily entered the chamber, and went towards the picture, which appeared to be enclosed in a frame of uncommon size, that hung in a dark part of the room. She paused again, and then, with a timid hand, lifted the veil; but instantly let it fall—perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture, and, before she could leave the chamber, she dropped senseless on the floor.
When she recovered her recollection, the remembrance of what she had seen had nearly deprived her of it a second time. She had scarcely strength to remove from the room, and regain her own; and, when arrived there, wanted courage to remain alone.
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Volume 4, Chapter 16
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“Sister! beware of the first indulgence of the passions; beware of the first! Their course, if not checked then, is rapid—their force is uncontrollable—they lead us we know not whither—they lead us perhaps to the commission of crimes, for which whole years of prayer and penitence cannot atone!—Such may be the force of even a single passion, that it overcomes every other, and sears up every other approach to the heart. Possessing us like a fiend, it leads us on to the acts of a fiend, making us insensible to pity and to conscience.”
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Signora Laurentini/Agnes Quotes in The Mysteries of Udolpho
The The Mysteries of Udolpho quotes below are all either spoken by Signora Laurentini/Agnes or refer to Signora Laurentini/Agnes. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Volume 2, Chapter 6
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Emily passed on with faltering steps, and having paused a moment at the door, before she attempted to open it, she then hastily entered the chamber, and went towards the picture, which appeared to be enclosed in a frame of uncommon size, that hung in a dark part of the room. She paused again, and then, with a timid hand, lifted the veil; but instantly let it fall—perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture, and, before she could leave the chamber, she dropped senseless on the floor.
When she recovered her recollection, the remembrance of what she had seen had nearly deprived her of it a second time. She had scarcely strength to remove from the room, and regain her own; and, when arrived there, wanted courage to remain alone.
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Volume 4, Chapter 16
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“Sister! beware of the first indulgence of the passions; beware of the first! Their course, if not checked then, is rapid—their force is uncontrollable—they lead us we know not whither—they lead us perhaps to the commission of crimes, for which whole years of prayer and penitence cannot atone!—Such may be the force of even a single passion, that it overcomes every other, and sears up every other approach to the heart. Possessing us like a fiend, it leads us on to the acts of a fiend, making us insensible to pity and to conscience.”
