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Vittoria

CHAPTER IV
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She does not require to be excited.

I came charged with several proposals for giving the alarm.

Attend, you others! The night of the Fifteenth comes; it is passing like an ordinary night.

At twelve a fire-balloon is seen in the sky.

Listen, in the name of saints and devils!" But even the Chief was observed to show signs of amusement, and the gravity of the rest forsook them altogether at the display of this profound and original conspiratorial notion.
"Excellent! excellent! my Carlo," said old Agostino, cheerfully.


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