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Marius the Epicurean
Volume One

CHAPTER V: THE GOLDEN BOOK
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Afterwards the sound of a company singing together came to her, but still so that none were present to sight; yet it appeared that a great multitude of singers was there.
And the hour of evening inviting her, she climbed into the bed; and as the night was far advanced, behold a sound of a certain clemency approaches her.

Then, fearing for her maidenhood in so great solitude, she trembled, and more than any evil she knew dreaded that she knew not.

And now the husband, that unknown husband, drew near, and ascended the couch, and made her his wife; and lo! before the rise of dawn he had departed hastily.

And the attendant voices ministered to the needs of the newly married.

And so it happened with her for a long season.


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