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Vittoria

CHAPTER XIV
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'I have no chocolate in my pocket, and I hardly know myself.' 'What will your Signor Antonio say ?' Vittoria filliped her fingers.

'His rule is over, and he is my slave: I am not his.

I will not eat much; but some some I must have.' Ammiani laughed and promised to obtain it.

'That is, if there's any to be had.' 'Break open doors to get it for me,' she said, stamping with fun to inspirit him.
No sooner was she standing alone, than her elbow was gently plucked at on the other side: a voice was sibilating: 'S-s-signorina.' She allowed herself to be drawn out of the light of the open doorway, having no suspicion and no fear.

'Signorina, here is chocolate.' She beheld two hands in cup-shape, surcharged with packets of Turin chocolate.
'Lugi, it is you ?' The Motterone spy screwed his eyelids to an expression of the shrewdest secresy.
'Hist! signorina.


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