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Mare Nostrum (Our Sea)

CHAPTER VI
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The two climbed into the nearest vehicle, and immediately the tumult ceased.

The empty coaches returned to occupy their former place in the line, and the deadly rivals renewed their placid and laughing conversation.
An enormous upright plume was waving on their horses' heads.

The cabman, in order not to be discourteous to his two clients, would occasionally turn half-way around, giving them explanations.
"Over there," and he pointed with his whip, "is the road of Piedigrotta.

The gentleman ought to see it on a day of fiesta in September.

Few return from it with a firm step._S.Maria di Piedigrotta_ enabled Charles III to put the Austrians to flight in Velletri....


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