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The Child of Pleasure

CHAPTER IX
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His hands trembled visibly.

Every smile, every movement, every glance of Ippolita's was a sword-thrust in his heart.

When he dropped his glass, he was deadly pale.

He had surprised a look in the eyes that met Sperelli's which he knew full well of old.

Everything seemed crumbling to ruins around him.
The love of years was over--irrevocably lost--slain by that glance.


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