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CHAPTER VII.
Euthanasia returns.—Beatrice meets the witch, and encounters Castruccio and Tripalda.—Dies.
On the third night she returned to the witch. "You need not speak," said Mandragola, "I know your thoughts; you hardly believe my words, yet you are determined to make the trial. It is well; I should be surer of success, if you had implicit faith in my powers and your own; but it is enough. What do you wish to effect?"
"First, mother, I must know what I can do."
"Your power is almost illimitable; but that of which I spoke, and that power which you prize most, is the power which you possess over the prince of Lucca. Do you wish to
