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"You may bring him in," said the duke, "but just warn him, Picard, that if he dares to intrude upon me for any trifling matter, I'll have him skinned alive before I let him go." Mirindol was just about leaving the room, when the entrance of the newcomer rooted him to the spot; he was so astonished and alarmed that he could not move hand or foot.
Our victims are so apt to be cowardly, and give in without a struggle it is no better than sticking a pig and that I cannot stand, it disgusts me. A good manly resistance, the more stubborn the better, gives a pleasant zest to the task." "You may rest easy on that score," Mirindol replied, with a malicious smile; "you will find a tough customer to handle, I promise you."
He wore a large scarlet cloak, wrapped closely about his erect, vigorous form, and in one hand, which he extended towards the duke, he held suspended a well filled purse a strange and mysterious proceeding which Mirindol could by no means understand. "Well, you rascal," said the duke, after staring for a moment in astonishment at this odd-looking specimen, "what does this mean?
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