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Well, signor, I am not the accusatore pubblico, and it is no business of mine to hunt down criminals.
The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray
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My companion in the dock was probably, so the accusatore said, an accessory before the fact, and it was probable that, whilst I had committed the crime to gratify my own evil passion for revenge, I had engaged this desperate and notorious character to pillage the body in order to give the murder the appearance of having been committed from a purely sordid motive.
The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray
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England, except that here you have no accusatore pubblico.
The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray
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'Thus it is,' said the accusatore, speaking with a stern passion of emphasis, 'that these traitors to their country first cast off their natal ties in order to lead lives of unrestricted profligacy abroad, and having, in other lands, done all within them to disgrace the land of their birth, return to it to inflict a wound still deeper upon the national reputation; and thus it is that these villains, though they once did their country the honour to repudiate it, return to lay a final disgrace upon it.'
The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray
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