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Chapter IX The Price of the River Farm; in which Vainglory Goes Before a Fall
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THE pistol had been practically fired. Under ordinary circumstances the scene at the council table would have entirely1 exhausted2 Otto’s store both of energy and anger; he would have begun to examine and condemn3 his conduct, have remembered all that was true, forgotten all that was unjust in Seraphina’s onslaught; and by half an hour after would have fallen into that state of mind in which a Catholic flees to the confessional and a sot takes refuge with the bottle. Two matters of detail preserved his spirits. For, first, he had still an infinity4 of business to transact5; and to transact business, for a man of Otto’s neglectful and procrastinating6 habits, is the best anodyne7 for conscience. All afternoon he was hard at it with the Chancellor8, reading, dictating9, signing, and despatching papers; and this kept him in a glow of self-approval. But, secondly10, his vanity was still alarmed; he had failed to get the money; to-morrow before noon he would have to disappoint old Killian; and in the eyes of that family which counted him so little, and to which he had sought to play the part of the heroic comforter, he must sink lower than at first. To a man of Otto’s temper, this was death. He could not accept the situation. And even as he worked, and worked wisely and well, over the hated details of his principality, he was secretly maturing a plan by which to turn the situation. It was a scheme as pleasing to the man as it was dishonourable in the prince; in which his
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vengeance
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leash
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subserviency
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sneering
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dissecting
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citadel
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harp
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etiquette
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coup
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muse
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treasury
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wittily
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pathos
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dignified
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appreciable
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regaining
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levity
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accomplice
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deity
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squire
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panoply
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retired
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talismanic
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groaned
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martinet
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conversing
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intermittently
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stature
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