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Vittoria

CHAPTER XII
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Can you trace it to her hand?
Who put the plague-mark upon you ?' Vittoria looked steadily away from her.
'It means just this,' Carlo interposed; 'there! now it 's off; and, signorina, I entreat you to think nothing of it,--it means that any one who takes a chief part in the game we play, shall and must provoke all fools, knaves, and idiots to think and do their worst.

They can't imagine a pure devotion.

Yes, I see--"Sei sospetta." They would write their 'Sei sospetta' upon St.Catherine in the Wheel.

Put it out of your mind.

Pass it.' 'But they suspect her; and why do they suspect her ?' Laura questioned vehemently.


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