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Mare Nostrum (Our Sea)

CHAPTER XII
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Thus had that body gone to dissolution in an unknown hole in the ground like any abandoned beast of burden!...
"She was good," said her defender, "and yet at the same time, she was a criminal.

Her education was to blame.

Poor woman!...

They had brought her up to live in riches, and riches had always fled before her." Then in his last lines the old _maitre_ said with melancholy, "She died thinking of you and a little of me....

We have been the last men of her existence." This reading left Ulysses in a mournful state of stupefaction.


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