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Cosmopolis

CHAPTER II
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What a marvel! It is as good as the one of Pius Second, which was at Pienza and which has been stolen.

I could have bought it at one time for fifteen hundred francs.

It is worth fifteen thousand, twenty thousand, all of that.

Here is some faience.

It was brought from Spain when Cardinal Castagna came from Madrid, when he took the place of Pius Fifth as sponsor of Infanta Isabella.


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