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With an exclalass, and said: "It is a sin to spill such wine Now I have no more in which to drink your

health Get another bottle, Julio, from the cupboard; it is perhaps the

last tiether On the third shelf, the bottle

with the long neck"

Julio arose with difficulty froered to the cupboard

Simon Turchi thrust his hand in his doublet, and drew out a very small

phial He hastily poured nearly the whole contents into Julio's glass, and

ih he trembled in every limb,

he said, calht bottle"

The servant brought the bottle to his master, who uncorked it; but as he

was about to pour out the wine, he said: "Elass, Julio; this is a different wine, and the mixture would

spoil both"

Julio drank the wine, but no sooner had he sed it than he exclaie, bitter taste Did you put poison

in it?"

"What a silly idea!" said Turchi, turning pale