[Vittoria by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookVittoria CHAPTER V 15/26
Now, you are going to sing on the night of the fifteenth of September.
Change that night. The Signor Antonio-Pericles watches you, and he is a friend of the Government, and the Government is snoring for you to think it asleep. The Signor Antonio-Pericles pacifies the Tedeschi, but he will know all that you are doing, and how easy it will be, and how simple, for you to let me know what you think he ought to know, and just enough to keep him comfortable! So we work like a machine, signorina.
Only, not through that Beppo, for he is vain of his legs, and his looks, and his service, and because he has carried a gun and heard it go off.
Yes; I am a spy. But I am honest.
I, too, have visited England.
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