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Love-at-Arms

CHAPTER V
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"I have given the command of my guards to Martino Armstadt, and he has engaged for me a company of five hundred Swiss lanzknechte that were lately in the pay of the Baglioni of Perugia." "And you deem this security ?" rejoined Francesco, with a smile of scorn.
"To hedge your throne with foreign spears commanded by a foreigner ?" "This and God's grace," was the pious answer.
"Bah!" answered Francesco, impatient at the hypocrisy.

"Win the hearts of your people.

Let that be your buckler." "Hush!" whispered Gian Maria.

"You blaspheme.

Does not every act of my self-sacrificing life point to such an aim?
I live for my people.


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