[Vittoria by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookVittoria CHAPTER XIV 13/34
For yourself, this is half your pay--I give you napoleons; ten.Count.And now--once at the Chateau Sonnenberg, I repeat, you leave her in charge of two persons, one a woman, at the gate, and then back--frrrrr....' Antonio-Pericles smacked on the flat of his hand, and sounded a rapid course of wheels. 'Back, and drop not a crumb upon the road.
You have your map.
It is, after Roveredo, straight up the Adige, by Bolzano...
say "Botzen."' '"Botz,"' said Luigi, submissively. '"Botz"-- "Botz"-- ass! fool! double idiot! "Botzon!"' Antonio-Pericles corrected him furiously, exclaiming to the sovereign skies, 'Though I pay for brains, can I get them! No.
But make a fiasco, Luigi, and not a second ten for you, my friend: and away, out of my sight, show yourself no more!' Luigi humbly said that he was not the instrument of a fiasco. Half spurning him, Antonio-Pericles snarled an end both to his advices and his prophetic disgust of the miserable tools furnished unto masterly minds upon this earth.
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