City of God (35 page)

Alexander had drunk only half his poisoned cup, but he was an old man, and any poison was enough. Without his father's power and the power of his father's purse, Valentino was beaten, destroyed by his own greed. He thought he had escaped nature, but in the end his own nature had over-mastered him, as surely as the returning swing of the pendulum.

Nicholas laughed.

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