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The Well of Saint Clare by Anatole France
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followed it with their eyes. When night began to close in, a furrow of
light was seen marking her wake over the waters, which were fallen to a
dead calm.

At Venice next morning Eliezer, on opening his door, saw a bark in the
narrow canal of the Ghetto laden with full sacks and manned by a little
figure of black wood, flashing in the clear morning sunbeams. The
vessel stopped before the house where the seven-branched candlestick was
carved; and the Jew recognized the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus,
pledge of the Christian Merchant.




HISTORY OF DOÑA MARIA D'AVALOS AND DON FABRICIO, DUKE D'ANDRIA

TO HENRY GAUTHIER-VILLARS




HISTORY OF DOÑA MARIA D'AVALOS AND DON FABRICIO, DUKE D'ANDRIA

_Done Marie d'Avalos, l'une des belles princesses du païs, mariée avec
le prince de Venouse, laquelle s'estant enamourachée du comte
d'Andriane, l'un des beaux princes du païs aussy, et s'estans tous
deux concertez à la jouissance et le mari l'ayant descouverte ... les
fit tous deux massacrer par gens appostez; si que le lendemain on
trouva ces deux belles moictiez et créatures exposées et tendues sur
le pavé devant la porte de la maison, toutes mortes et froides, à la
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