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The Jewel Merchants - A Comedy in One Act by James Branch Cabell
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GRACIOSA
I know nothing of the judgment. But it was this Eglamore who discovered
the plot, if there indeed was any plot, and who sent my cousin Cibo to
a death--(_pointing to the shrine_)--oh, to a death as horrible as that.
So I hate him.

GUIDO
Yet you have never even seen him, I believe?

GRACIOSA
And it would be better for him never to see me or any of my kin. My
father, my uncles and my cousins have all sworn to kill him--

GUIDO
So I have gathered. They remain among the unbought.

GRACIOSA
(_Returning, sits upon the bench, and speaks regretfully._) But they
have never any luck. Cousin Pietro contrived to have a beam dropped on
Eglamore's head, and it missed him by not half a foot--

GUIDO
Ah, yes, I remember.

GRACIOSA
And Cousin Georgio stabbed him in the back one night, but the coward had
on chain-armor under his finery--

GUIDO
I remember that also.
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