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As his second in command The Prince had Marshal Repnin, one-time Ambassador to Poland.
Repnin, who had a rather narrow face, longish nose, high forehead, and arching brows, looked like a quizzical Mephistopheles.
Some people thought he lacked both ability and character, but most agreed that he was noble in appearance and, for a Russian, humane.
The Marshal came to know Littlepage quite well.
At General Headquarters the newcomer in turn got to know others.
There was the Neapolitan, Ribas, a capable conniver whose father had been a blacksmith but who had fawned his way up the ladder of Catherine's and Potemkin's favor till he was now a brigadier ( and would one day be the daggerman designated to do in Czar Paul 1,, after traveling all the way to Naples to procure just the right stiletto ).

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