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THE NINTH MAN

judged them rightly, for even the nobles, in their zest for life, had no mind to show spite to Mazzaleone.

For the common people there was dancing in the street, and wine and music for all who wished. And so it was that the whole town fell to its great, lustful rejoicing, that they were to live.