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Your devoted Bianca

"Well, dahts Marius will be gone, and now this Ahts under this roof?"

"You had better," said Riccardo

"Then you know the story "

"Bianca toldtraced you there and heard tell of you being there all the tiuests had not stopped him en masse "

"And why didn't they kill hiustedly

He looked most worried and sympathetic

"I think they count on our Master to do it," he said, "as it is you that the man wants How can you be certain the Master hts? When has he ever said such things? He cooes, he warns no one "

"Hue withhohts, and I will not stay cooped up in this house, and not while Lord Harlech stirs up dirt "

"You'd better stay here!" Riccardo answered "Alish master He's the terror of the taverns You knew that when you picked up with hi bad and nothing good "

"So then come with me You need only distract him and I'll take him "

"No, you're good with your sword, true enough, but you can't take awith the blade since before you were born "

I lay back down on the pillow What should I do? I was on fire to go out into the world, on fire to gaze at things with nificance of , and now this! And the hhouse pleasure was no doubt advertising far and wide his discontent

It was bitter, but it see to do I wanted very er and sword, and even thought I had a good chance of it, but as this petty adventure to what lay before me when my Master returned?

The fact was, I had already left the world of regular things, the world of regular scores to be settled, and could not be dra into a foolish blunder that e destiny towards which I moved