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Vittoria

CHAPTER XVIII
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Oh, the tragedy!--when I have time to write it.

Let me now go to my girl, to my daughter! The blood of the Lenkenstein must rust on the steel.

Angelo slew him: Rinaldo gave him the cross to kiss.

You shall have the whole story by-and-by; but this will be a lesson to Germans not to court our Italian damsels.

Lift not that curtain, you Pannonian burglars! Much do we pardon; but bow and viol meet not, save that they be of one wood; especially not when signor bow is from yonderside the Rhoetian Alps, and donzella Viol is a growth of warm Lombardy.


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