[Vittoria by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookVittoria CHAPTER XV 32/34
And mind, the chance rising is commonly the luckiest.
If I get a command I march to the Alps.
We must have the passes of the Tyrol.
It seems to me that whoever holds the Alps must ride the Lombard mare.
You spring booted and spurred into the saddle from the Alps.' Carlo was hurt by his friend's indifference to the base injury done to Vittoria. 'I have told Medole that she will sing to-night in spite of him,' he was saying, with the intention of bringing round some reproach upon Luciano for his want of noble sympathy, when the crash of an Austrian regimental band was heard coming up the Corso.
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