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you are right. Adieu, until to-morrow." Turchi offered his arm to Deodati, and
anieF heads; all the windows were crowded with women and even children;
the roofs swarmed with curious spectators;
the iron balustrades seemed to bend under the weig
praT for some time my master has been very melancholy, and nothing seems to give him pleasure." "I know it, Julio; but things will be better for him now." "Would that y
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just what I wanted. I don't know how it happened, but I lost every game. Each time we doubled the stakes;
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but a sudden thought seemed to arrest him. He sprang back, trembling, and hastened from the cellar. A little farther in the street he stopped and murmured in an anxious voice: "Heavens! what was I about to do? Risk the money upon dice? I would certainly have lost the whole. Pietro Mostajo, do not forget the Superintendent of Lucca! I am saved. Infernal temptation! I was about to stake my head. But, perhaps, I would not be unlucky. I might win a f
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