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The master of another manufactory, situated near the gates of

Bergamo, being dead, the inheritor of it, a young libertine, was

willing to sell it half price, for ready money. Bortolo proposed

to his cousin that they should make the purchase together. They

did so; and when they entered into possession, Lucy was much

pleased, and Renzo also, and not the less so for having heard

that more than one person amongst his neighbours had said, "Have

you seen this beautiful simpleton who is just come?"