The Innocents Abroad


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he dragged the weeping dame from her refuge. "Say, once for all, will  
you be mine?--for by my halidome, that breath that uttereth thy refusal  
shall be thy last on earth!"  
"NE-VER?"  
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Then die!" and the sword leaped from its scabbard.  
Quicker than thought, quicker than the lightning's flash, fifty monkish  
habits disappeared, and fifty knights in splendid armor stood revealed!  
fifty falchions gleamed in air above the men-at-arms, and brighter,  
fiercer than them all, flamed Excalibur aloft, and cleaving downward  
struck the brutal Leonardo's weapon from his grasp!  
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A Luigi to the rescue! Whoop!"  
A Leonardo! 'tare an ouns!'"  
Oh, God, Oh, God, my husband!"  
Oh, God, Oh, God, my wife!"  
My father!"  
My precious!" [Tableau.]  
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