Word: mirelli
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...command, he has been nicknamed "Shoot." It is an Americanism that sounds ludicrous and a little contemptible to Italians. Another man might be annoyed but not "Shoot" Gubbio. He can contemplate worse than that with equanimity. The futility of mechanical "art," for example. Even the suicide of Giorgio Mirelli, a boy-genius whom he has tutored, does not greatly perturb him. Nor even the strange daemon of the beautiful woman who caused the boy's suicide. Emotionless? Oh, no. But he has taught himself to control his emotions so that he can serve the spider and yet preserve something...
...Nestoroff, the woman is called. Before and after Giorgio Mirelli she has had many men. Her proclivity for throwing her very beautiful body away on gutter types right after it has been worshiped by refined slaves, suggests degeneracy to most of her critics. The impassive Gubbio thinks not. He can understand it is her subtle revenge upon men who desire only that part of her which she scorns. Her revenge upon Giorgio, a pure youth, an artist, had to be yet more subtle because the injury he did her was worse than the others. He enjoyed only her body...
...speaks of a betrayal. Of his betrayal by Mirelli, who killed himself because of the proof that he wished to give him that it was easy to obtain from you (if you will pardon my saying so) what Mirelli himself had failed to attain...
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