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Vittoria

CHAPTER XXI
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She spurns him.

He has served her; she needs him no more; but she will recommend him in other quarters, and bids him to seek them.

'I will give thee a collar for thy neck, marked "Faithful." It is the utmost I can do for thy species.' Leonardo thinks that he is insulted, but there is a vestige of doubt in him still.

'She is so fair! she dissembles so magnificently ever!' She has previously told him that she is acting a part, as Camilla did.

Irma had shed all her hair from a golden circlet about her temples, barbarian-wise.


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