[Vittoria by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookVittoria CHAPTER XVIII 5/23
'We are followers of a blind mole,' he uttered with an inner voices while still gazing wrathfully, and then burst out in grief, '"Patria o mea creatrix, patria o mea genetrix!"' 'The signorina takes none of his warnings, nor do we.
She escaped a plot last night, and to-night she sings.' 'She must not,' said Agostino imperiously. 'She does.' 'I must stop that.' Agostino jumped out of bed. The young men beset him with entreaties to leave the option to her. 'Fools!' he cried, plunging a rageing leg into his garments.
'Here, Iris! Mercury! fly to Jupiter and say we are all old men and boys in Italy, and are ready to accept a few middleaged mortals as Gods, if they will come and help us.
Young fools! Do you know that when you conspire you are in harness, and yoke-fellows, every one ?' 'Yoked to that Barto Rizzo!' 'Yes; and the worse horse of the two.
Listen, you pair of Nuremberg puppet-heads! If the Chief were here, I would lie still in my bed. Medole has stopped the outbreak.
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