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Antonio Fogazzaro. The Saint
The Saint
Table of Contents
Introduction
By William Roscoe Thayer
Author of “The Dawn of Italian Independence”
ANTONIO FOGAZZARO AND HIS MASTERPIECE
THE SAINT
CHAPTER I. LAC D’AMOUR
CHAPTER II. DON CLEMENTE
CHAPTER III. A NIGHT OF STORMS
CHAPTER IV. FACE TO FACE
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CHAPTER V. THE SAINT
CHAPTER VI. THREE LETTERS
CHAPTER VII. IN THE WHIRLPOOL OF THE WORLD
CHAPTER VIII. JEANNE
CHAPTER IX. IN THE WHIRLWIND OF GOD
“Do you wish me never to forgive some one for something?”
“Do whatever he wishes. It is the feast of a condemned man!”
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Antonio Fogazzaro
Published by Good Press, 2019
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At this point in Noemi’s narrative, Carlino inquired whether he should set up three tents that they might pass the night on the spot? His sister and Noemi aroused themselves and started in the direction of the Rue des Laines. “The answer,” continued Noemi, “was, that probably human souls found themselves in a state and in surroundings regulated, as in this life, by natural laws; where, as also in this life, the future can be divined only by indications, and without certainty.”
A wayfarer, whom they met at the entrance of the narrow, dark street, turned back, and on passing the ladies, scrutinised them closely. Jeanne pretended to be afraid of the man; she stopped, and calling Carlino, proposed to return home. Her voice really sounded different, but Carlino could not believe she was afraid. Afraid of what? Did she not see there before them only a few steps away, the lights of the Grande Place? Moreover he knew the man, and was going to put him into his book. He was the brother of the swan-necked Edith, a spirit of darkness, condemned to wander at night in the streets of Bruges, as a penance for having attempted to seduce St. Gunhild, sister of King Harold. Each time that Carlino had ventured at night into the more lonely parts of Bruges he had seen this sinister figure, wandering, as it seemed, aimlessly.
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