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GERFAUT, THE WIZARD.
There are some women who, like the heroic Cure Merino, need but one hour's sleep.

A nervous, irritable, subtle organization gives them a power for waking, without apparent fatigue, refused to most men.

And yet, when a strong emotion causes its corrosive waters to filtrate into the veins of these impressionable beings, it trickles there drop by drop, until it has hollowed out in the very depths of their hearts a lake full of trouble and storms.

Then, in the silence of night and the calm of solitude, insomnia makes the rosy cheeks grow pale and dark rings encircle the most sparkling eyes.