[Vittoria by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookVittoria CHAPTER V 24/26
The day is your own. Bear in mind that you are so situated that it will be prudent for you to have no fresh relations, either with foreigners or others, until your work is done,--in which, my dear child, may God bless you!" "I pray to him with all my might," Vittoria said in reply. After a consultation with Agostino, Ugo Corte and Marco and Giulio bade their adieux to her.
The task of keeping Luigi from their clutches was difficult; but Agostino helped her in that also.
To assure them, after his fashion, of the harmlessness of Luigi, he seconded him in a contest of wit against Beppo, and the little fellow, now that he had shaken off his fears, displayed a quickness of retort and a liveliness "unknown to professional spies and impossible to the race," said Agostino; "so absolutely is the mind of man blunted by Austrian gold.
We know that for a fact.
Beppo is no match for him.
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