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Cosmopolis

CHAPTER VI
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The second of a Gorka, the father-in-law of an Ardea, he triumphs, the thief who should by rights be a convict!...

But we shall see.

Will not all the other Roman princes who have no blots upon their escutcheons, the Orsinis, the Colonnas, the Odeschalchis, the Borgheses, the Rospigliosis, not combine to prevent this monstrosity?
Nobility is like love, those who buy those sacred things degrade them in paying for them, and those to whom they are given are no better than mire....

Princess d'Ardea! That creature! Ah, what a disgrace!...

But we must remember our engagement relative to that brave young Chapron.


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