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"Give theanelli, "do you hear, thirty, brother

Lorenzo Thirty scudi is yet a very small sum!"

"Ah, what do you know about eese here understand the matter better than you, brother Clement"

"Well, it is for that reason I have anelli "A prince will always be well advised when he chooses

a sensible and well-instructed servant for that which he does not

understand hinorance on the proper occasion

does honor to a prince, and procures hiive hi

Coarden; you see that these fowls care

nothing for us now; as they are satiated, they despise our provender

Coarden!" exclaimed Lorenzo, with a mysterious smile

"Come, brother Clement, I have prepared a little surprise for you there!

Come and see it!"

And the two old arden

"Followhiarden "Now stoop a little and

creep through here, and then we are at the place"

The pope carefully followed the directions of his leader, and worked his

way through the obstruction of the myrtle-bushes until he arrived at

a small circular place, in the centre of which, shaded by tall

olive-trees, was a turf-seat surrounded by tendrils of ivy, and before