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He may have been we know, indeed, that he was no more averse to double-dealing than any other Cinquecentist; but he was probably as averse to being found out in a meanness and made to look contemptible as any double-dealer of our own times. It is a consideration worth digesting.
Promptly the man surged before him in the gloom, and as promptly Giovanni sank his dagger in the fellow's breast. He deplored the necessity for the deed, but it was unavoidable, and your cinquecentist never shrank from anything that necessity imposed upon him. To let the lackey live would be to have the bargelli in the house by morning. The man sank with a half-uttered cry, and lay still.
A motive was certainly required to account for Troche's action; but the invention of motives does not appear ever to have troubled the Cinquecentist. It was now said that Troche was enraged at having been omitted from the list of cardinals to be created at the forthcoming Consistory.
Michelangelo, in a passion, named the dealer one Baldassare to whom he had sent the statue after treating it, with the questionable morality of the cinquecentist, so as to give it the appearance of having lain in the ground, to the end that Baldassare might dispose of it as an antique.
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