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Vittoria

CHAPTER V
19/26

When he heard that you were going to leave Milan for Baveno, he was mad, and with two fists up, against all English persons.

The Englishman who is an Austrian officer is quartered at Verona, and the Signor Antonio Pericles said that the Englishman should not meet you yet, if he could help it." Victoria stood brooding.

"Who can it be,--who is an Englishman, and an Austrian officer, and knows me ?" "Signorina, I don't know names.

Behold, that Beppo is approaching like the snow! What I entreat is, that the signorina will wait a little for the English party, if they come, so that I may have something to tell my patron.

To invent upon nothing is most unpleasant, and the Signor Antonio can soon perceive whether one swims with corks.


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