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'" The smile which for a moment dwelt on his lips was not unkind.
"At the same time he has a very good grip of the material conditions that surround, as it were, the situation." "What do you mean?
That Dona Rita" (the name came strangely familiar to my tongue) "is rich, that she has a fortune of her own ?" "Yes, a fortune," said Mills.

"But it was Allegre's fortune before.

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