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Cosmopolis

CHAPTER II
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Ah, what treasures! But you go like the wind," he added, "and perhaps it is better, for I would stop, and Cavalier Fossati, the auctioneer, to whom those terrible creditors of Peppino have given charge of the sale, has spies everywhere.

You notice an object, you are marked as a solid man, as they say in Germany.
You are noted.

I shall be down on his list.

I have been caught by him enough.

Ha! He is a very shrewd man! But come, I see the ladies.
We should have remembered that they were here," and smiling--but at whom ?--at Fossati, at himself or his companion ?--he made the latter read the notice hung on the door of a transversal room, which bore this inscription: "Salon of marriage-chests." There were, indeed, ranged along the walls about fifteen of those wooden cases painted and carved, of those 'cassoni' in which it was the fashion, in grand Italian families, to keep the trousseaux destined for the brides.


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