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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: '. everything one touches is fire, and the sky is like lead, and one minute you are cold and one minute you are hot, and you may turn and turn on your pillow all night and never sleep, and you want to curse everybody you see, or to embrace them, it makes no difference?anything to express the Devil and may he carry you off interrupted Ercole, laughing. But his manner changed. Poor fellow, he said presently, it appears to me you are in love. It appears to you, does it? 'Appears'?a beautiful word, in faith. I can tell you it appears to me so, too. Ah it 'appears' to you?very good indeed And Nino waxed wroth. I will give you some advice, Ninetto mio. Do not fall in love with any one. It always ends badly. You come late with your counsel, Sor Ercole. In truth, a very good piece of advice when a man is fifty, and married, and wears a skull-cap. When I wear a skull-cap and take snuff I will follow your instructions. He walked up and down the room, grinding his teeth, and clapping his hands together. Ercole rose and stopped him. Let us talk seriously, he said. With all my heart; as seriously as you please. You have only seen this signorina once. Once cried Nino,?as if once were not Diavolo; let me speak. You have only seen her once. She is noble, an heiress, a great lady?worse than all, a foreigner; as beautiful as a statue, if you please, but twice as cold. She has a father who knows the proprieties, a piece of iron, I tell you, who would kill you just as he would drink a glass of wine, with the greatest indifference, if he suspected you lifted your eyes to his daughter. I do not believe your calumnies, said Nino, still hotly. She is not cold, and if I can see her she will listen to me. I am sure of it. We will sp...
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