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Vittoria

CHAPTER XIX
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She is vinegar--we will mix her with oil.

It is only for to-night, to save that poor Rocco's opera.' 'Irma!' said Ammiani; 'she is by this time in Tyrol.

Your Irma will have some difficulty in showing herself here within sixty hours.' 'How!' cried Pericles, amazed, and plucking after Carlo to stop him.

'I bet you--' 'How much ?' 'I bet you a thousand florins you do not see la Vittoria to-night.' 'Good.

I bet you a thousand florins you do not see Irma.' 'No Vittoria, I say!' 'And I say, no Lazzeruola!' Agostino, who was pacing the lobby, sent Pericles distraught with the same tale of the rape of Irma.


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