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Half a Rogue

CHAPTER IV
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You will find no city named after her; nor Sappho, nor Aspasia.

The explorer and the geographer have never given woman any recognition; it was left to the poets to sing her praise.

Even Columbus, fine old gentleman that he was, absolutely ignored Isabella as a geographical name.
The city of Herculaneum (so called in honor of one Hercules) was very well named.

To become immortal it had the same number of tasks to perform as had old Hercules.

The Augean Stables were in the City Hall; and had Hercules lived in Herculaneum, he never would have sat with the gods.


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