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Vittoria

CHAPTER V
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Now, you dangling soul! answer me:--what name hailed you when on earth ?" The fan, with no clearly serviceable tongue, articulated, "Luigi." "Luigi! the name Christian and distinctive.

The name historic:-Luigi Porco ?" "Luigi Saracco, signore." "Saracco: Saracco: very possibly a strip of the posterity of cut-throat Moors.

To judge by your face, a Moor undoubtedly: glib, slippery! with a body that slides and a soul that jumps.

Taken altogether, more serpent than eagle.

I misdoubt that little quick cornering eye of yours.


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