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The Bravo

CHAPTER XIII
19/23

If we get some useful gleanings by these secret accusations, we gain much nonsense.

I would whip a youngster of ten who could not mould our soft Italian into better rhyme than this ?" "'Tis the wantonness of security.

Let it pass, for all that serveth to amuse suppresseth turbulent thoughts.

Shall we now see his highness, Signori ?" "You forget the fisherman," gravely observed the Signor Gradenigo.
"Your honor sayeth true.

What a head for business hath he! Nothing that is useful escapeth his ready mind." The old senator, while he was too experienced to be cajoled by such language, saw the necessity of appearing flattered.


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