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Cellini's hate of Vasari proves, also, that the Gossipy One stood well with the reigning powers, otherwise Benvenuto would not have thought to condemn his work and allude to the man as a dough-face, trickster, lickspittle, slanderer, vulture, vagrom, villain, vilifier and gnat's hind-foot.
I denounce you as a cowardly vilifier of an absent woman." I know not why I failed to strike the fellow down. My hand was hard on the knife hilt within my doublet, yet I drew it not as we stood there eye to eye. There was that between us the dim, shadowy face of a woman which held me as by a chain.
"Here's a case at last where I don't need any help or advice from you, Joe!" "Punch the face offn him!" adjured Lanigan, even while he was floundering among the legs of the men against whom he had been thrown. The mayor plunged through the crowd in the direction of the vilifier. The man did not attempt to escape. "Strike me! Strike me down. I offer myself for my cause to shame these cowards!"
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