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CHAPTER VIIIOne evening, when a late Easter was quiteover,Iwas carrying home some work thatIhad clone, andIwent perforce past the palaceof the Sovrana princes; the palace of hisblackbrowedwanton, who there ruled hke OlympiaPamfili,and had the great world all about her;for she who makes her husband's shame, nowadayscan clothe herself with it as with a garmentof righteousness; be her lord only but vilealso.In the shadow of the mighty courtyard of theplace, there was a vast crowd of gay grandpeople coming and going;amongst themIatlength sawHilarion;he was enteringthe house.My heart leapt with a wild bound, as though theblood of only twenty years pulsedinit.