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Cosmopolis

CHAPTER V
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Around the base of the sculptured marble, legends attest the triumph of the humble Galilean fisherman who landed at the port of the Tiber 1800 years ago, unknown, persecuted, a beggar.

What a symbol and what counsel to say with the apostle: "Whither shall we go, Lord?
Thou alone hast the words of eternal life!" But Gorka was neither a Montfanon nor a Dorsenne to hear within his heart or his mind the echo of such precepts.

He was a man of passion and of action, who only saw his passion and his actions in the position in which fortune threw him.

A fresh access of fury recalled to him Maitland's attitude of the preceding day.

This time he would no longer control himself.


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