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Vittoria

CHAPTER II
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I have no doubt of him.

As to boys, or even girls, you know my faith is in the young.

Through them Italy lives.

What power can teach devotion to the old ?" "I thank you, signore," Agostino gesticulated.
"But, tell me, when did you learn it, my friend ?" In answer, Agostino lifted his hand a little boy's height from the earth.
The old man then said: "I am afraid, my dear Corte, you must accept the fellowship of a girl as well as of a boy upon this occasion.

See! our Carlo! You recognize that dancing speck below there ?--he has joined himself--the poor lad wishes he could, I dare swear!--to another bigger speck, which is verily a lady: who has joined herself to a donkey--a common habit of the sex, I am told; but I know them not.


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