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Prince Otto

CHAPTER X--GOTTHOLD'S REVISED OPINION; AND THE FALL COMPLETED
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'The partiality of sex.

She is a demirep; what then is Gondremark?
Were she a man--' 'It would be all one,' retorted Gotthold roughly.

'When I see a man, come to years of wisdom, who speaks in double-meanings and is the braggart of his vices, I spit on the other side.

"You, my friend," say I, "are not even a gentleman." Well, she's not even a lady.' 'She is the best friend I have, and I choose that she shall be respected,' Otto said.
'If she is your friend, so much the worse,' replied the Doctor.

'It will not stop there.' 'Ah!' cried Otto, 'there is the charity of virtue! All evil in the spotted fruit.


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