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The Inheritors

CHAPTER TEN
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I have been called names," the Duc said.
The figure of the lady danced before my eyes, lithe, supple--a statue endued with the motion of a serpent.

I seemed to see her sculptured white hand pointing to the closed door.
"Ah, yes," I said, "but one knows the people that call you names." "Well, then," he answered, "it is your task to make them know the truth.
Your nation has so much power.

If it will only realise." "I will do my best," I said.
I saw the apotheosis of the Press--a Press that makes a State Founder suppliant to a man like myself.

For he had the tone of a deprecating petitioner.

I stood between himself and a people, the arbiter of the peoples, of the kings of the future.


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