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While looking thus, his glance rested on the Apostle standing on the stone. For a while those two men looked at each other. It occurred to no one in that brilliant retinue, and to no one in that immense throng, that at that moment two powers of the earth were looking at each other, one of which would vanish quickly as a bloody dream, and the other, dressed in simple garments, would seize in eternal possession the world and the city.
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Quo Vadis: A Story of St. Peter in Rome in the Reign of Emperor Nero
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