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Dexter hatte Michelangelo bestochen, um ein weiteres störendes Element aus den familiären Verwicklungen herauszuhalten, vielleicht auch, um sich die Scherereien mit einem faulen, Unruhe stiftenden jungen Mann in nächster Nähe zu ersparen.
Dexter had bought off Michelangelo to keep one more disturbing element out of the family complication; perhaps also to relieve himself of the bother of having on his hands, at close quarters, an idle and mischief–making young man.
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