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Zanoni

CHAPTER 2
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And the young Englishman ?" "The presuming barbarian! As I before told thee, let him bleed for his folly.

I will have no rival." "But an Englishman! There is always a search after the bodies of the English." "Fool! is not the sea deep enough, or the earth secret enough, to hide one dead man?
Our ruffians are silent as the grave itself; and I!--who would dare to suspect, to arraign the Prince di -- ?
See to it,--this night.

I trust him to you.

Robbers murder him, you understand,--the country swarms with them; plunder and strip him, the better to favour such report.

Take three men; the rest shall be my escort." Mascari shrugged his shoulders, and bowed submissively.
The streets of Naples were not then so safe as now, and carriages were both less expensive and more necessary.


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