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"Naerly; "will ten thousand sequins

purchase your departure froive you twice asAbellino so ive hter of Guiscard of Corfu"

"Monster--what insolence!"

"Ho! ho! Patience, patience, good uncle, that is to be Will you

accept my terms?"

"Name what sum will satisfy you, and it shall be yours this instant,

so you will only relieve Venice froh it

should cost the Republic a er poisoned by your breath"

"Indeed! Why, in fact, a reat a sum; for look

you, Andreas, I have just sold for near HALF a million the lives of

your two dear friends, Manfrone and Loain"

"Miscreant! Has Heaven no lightnings?"

"You will not? Mark me! In four-and-twenty hours shall Manfrone

and Lomellino be food for fishes Abellino has said it Away!"

And with these words he drew a pistol froe's face Blinded by the powder, and confused

by the unexpected explosion, Andreas started back, and sunk

bewildered on a neighbouring sofa He soon recovered frouards and