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The Roman Question

CHAPTER XI
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Another is Conservator of Rome, under a Senator especially selected for his incapacity.

Another follows openly the trape of a monopolist, with immense facilities for either preventing or authorizing exportation, according as his own warehouses happen to be full or empty.

The youngest is the commercial traveller, the diplomatist, the messenger of the family, _Angelus Domini_.

A cousin of the family, Count Dandini, reigns over the police.

This little group is perpetually at work adding to a fortune which is invisible, impalpable, and incalculable.


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