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The Saint

CHAPTER V
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"Does this man really pretend to be a saint?
Is he pleased that these superstitious people quarrel about him in this way?
Is it true he has healed the sick ?" The doctor continued to laugh while she was speaking.
"I laugh," he answered.

"It is a ease of contagious, mystic psychopathy! But you must excuse me now, for I am due at Subiaco at eight o'clock.

I hope you will enjoy yourselves.

May your visit divert you," With this malicious thrust, he shook the reins on the mule's neck, and rode on, fearing he might be obliged to give proofs of what he asserted.
Noemi, who was the most agitated of the party at the prospect of seeing the man Jeanne loved, began to feel weary.

They halted a second time at the foot of the slope of Jenne, on the gravel across which shallow rivulets streak, flowing down to the river from the grotto of the Infernillo.


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