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Saracinesca

CHAPTER VII
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Ask Gouache--" "By all means," said the artist, squeezing a little more red from the tube upon his palette, "one should always sneer at what one cannot reach.
The fox, you remember, called the grapes sour.

He was probably right, for he is the most intelligent of animals." "I would like to hear what Giovanni had to say about those grapes," remarked Donna Tullia.
"Oh, he sneered in the most fashionable way," answered Del Ferice.

"He would have pleased you immensely.

He said that he would be ruined by a change of government, and that he thought it his duty to fight against it.

He talked a great deal about the level of the Tiber, and landed property, and the duties of gentlemen.


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