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"You would print the pamphlets anonymously?
That's all very well, but the fact is, we have all
seen enough of the clandestine press to know----"
"I did not mean that. I would print the pamphlets
openly, with our names and addresses, and
let them prosecute us if they dare."
"The project is a perfectly mad one," Grassini
exclaimed. "It is simply putting one's head into
the lion's mouth out of sheer wantonness."
"Oh, you needn't be afraid!" Galli cut in
sharply; "we shouldn't ask you to go to prison
for our pamphlets."
"Hold your tongue, Galli!" said Riccardo.
"It's not a question of being afraid; we're all as
ready as you are to go to prison if there's any good
to be got by it, but it is childish to run into danger
for nothing. For my part, I have an amendment
to the proposal to suggest."
"Well, what is it?"
"I think we might contrive, with care, to fight
the Jesuits without coming into collision with the
censorship."
"I don't see how you are going to manage it.


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