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to pay madame a visit while she sleeps and dreams!" His hand grew tense around the hilt of his sword.

"No; let us play Iago rather than Tarquinius; let ambition, rather than love, strike the key-note.

Greed was not born to wait.

As yet I have robbed no man save at cards; and as every noble cheats when he can, I can do no less.