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The City of Delight

CHAPTER XI
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However it may be, I get much pleasure in the companionship of this lovely creature, the single flaw in the fine fabric of your villainy.

Do not fear her convincing me.
She might convince others." There was no response; after a silence he said as he moved on: "I shall warn her to feed a morsel of her food to the parrots ere she tastes it, however." He was gone.

The woman felt of the keys that swung under the folds of her robes.

Then she, too, went on.
The oaken door was still fast closed when Philadelphus reached it, but he knew that the girl, who lived within, came out to walk in the sunshine of Amaryllis' court at certain hours while the household was engaged within doors.
He had not long to wait.

She came out in a little while, and glanced up and down the hall; but he had heard the turn of the bolt and had stepped into shadow in time.


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