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Vittoria

CHAPTER XX
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But there has been a witness to the stipulation.

The ever-shifting baritono, from behind a pillar, has joined in with an aside phrase here and there.

Leonardo discovers that his fealty to Camilla is reviving.

He determines to watch over her.

Camillo now tosses a perfumed handkerchief under his nose, and inhales the coxcombical incense of the idea that he will do all without Camilla's aid, to surprise her; thereby teaching her to know him to be somewhat a hero.
She has played her part so thoroughly that he can choose to fancy her a giddy person; he remarks upon the frequent instances of girls who in their girlhood were wild dreamers becoming after marriage wild wives.
His followers assemble, that he may take advantage of the exchanged key of silver.


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