One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories - Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles by Various
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concerning the plaster which the doctor had put on the knight's good
eye._ STORY THE EIGHTY-EIGHTH -- A HUSBAND IN HIDING. _Of a poor, simple peasant married to a nice, pleasant woman, who did much as she liked, and who in order that she might be alone with her lover, shut up her husband in the pigeon-house in the manner you will hear._ STORY THE EIGHTY-NINTH -- THE FAULT OF THE ALMANAC. _Of a curé who forgot, either by negligence or ignorance, to inform his parishioners that Lent had come until Palm Sunday arrived, as you will hear--and of the manner in which he excused himself to his parishioners._ STORY THE NINETIETH -- A GOOD REMEDY. _Of a good merchant of Brabant whose wife was very ill, and he supposing that she was about to die, after many remonstrances and exhortations for the salvation of her soul, asked her pardon, and she pardoned him all his misdeeds, excepting that he had not worked her as much as he ought to have done--as will appear more plainly in the said story._ STORY THE NINETY-FIRST -- THE OBEDIENT WIFE. |
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