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_II giovin cuore o non vede affatto i difetti di chi li sta vicino o li vede immensi. Error comune ai giovinetti che portano fuoco nell' interna dell' anima. LAMPUGNANI.
One day Octave learned in Paris that one of the men whom he saw most often and took most pleasure in seeing, one of his friends, as the word is used in society, owed the handsome fortune which he spent with such grace to what in Octave's eyes was the basest of actions (legacy hunting). Mademoiselle de Zohiloff, to whom he made haste, immediately on his return to Andilly, to impart this painful discovery, felt that he bore it very well. He underwent no attack of misanthropy, shewed no desire to quarrel openly with the man.