Mezzoni the Brigand — page 87: what you’re looking at

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= MEZZONI THE BRIGAND. | 79 screen herself from the violence and just anger of her husband, was left alone at last. Now stepped in the inevitable Nemesis, for crime, wrong, and falsehood are sure to entail misery, whether openly denounced or only acknowledged in secret. The Signora Amaedo despised herself for charging — ~~ ‘‘AND FORGIVE MEP?” that man with the endeavor to ruin her, or intimat- ing that by some subterfuge he had induced her to visit his palace. The last words of her enraged hus- band still rung in her ears. She knew only too well that a duel must follow. In the wickedness of her heart she even wondered if in case they should fight, €Comicboo (Elo)