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If they
attempted to go on they would soon find themselves entangled in the
greatest difficulties. They would sink where you will almost certainly
swim."
Orsino was silent for a moment. There was something despicable, to his
thinking, in profiting by the loss of a wretched baker's heirs.
"It seems to me," he said presently, "that if I succeed in this, I ought
to give a share of the profits to the present owners."
Not a muscle of Del Ferice's face moved, but his dull eyes looked
curiously at Orsino's young face.
"That sort of thing is not commonly done in business," he said quietly,
after a short pause. "As a rule, men who busy themselves with affairs do
so in the hope of growing rich, but I can quite understand that where
business is a mere pastime, as it is to be in your case, a man of
generous instincts may devote the proceeds to charity."
"It looks more like justice than charity to me," observed Orsino.
"Call it what you will, but succeed first and consider the uses of your
success afterwards.


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