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The Red Lily

CHAPTER I
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Be content with knowing that in that memoir poor Marmet quoted Latin texts and quoted them wrong.

Schmoll is a Latinist of great learning, and, after Mommsen, the chief epigraphist of the world.
"He reproached his young colleague--Marmet was not fifty years old--with reading Etruscan too well and Latin not well enough.

From that time Marmet had no rest.

At every meeting he was mocked unmercifully; and, finally, in spite of his softness, he got angry.

Schmoll is without rancor.


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