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Vittoria

CHAPTER XXI
19/24

They bid Camillo to direct their lifted swords upon his enemies.

Leonardo joins them.

Count Orso, after a burst of upbraidings, accepts Camillo's offer of peace, and gives his bond to quit the castle.

Michiella, gazing savagely at Camilla, entreats her for an utterance of her triumphant scorn.

She assures Camilla that she knows her feelings accurately.
'Now you think that I am overwhelmed; that I shall have a restless night, and lie, after all my crying's over, with my hair spread out on my pillow, on either side my face, like green moss of a withered waterfall: you think you will bestow a little serpent of a gift from my stolen treasures to comfort me.


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