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Penguin Island

BOOK I
16/54

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But his spirit is tardy and his hand is slothful.

Farewell then, father! Travel by short and slow stages and when at last you approach the coast of Hoedic you will see the smoking ruins of the chapel that was built and consecrated by your own hands.

The pagans will have burned it and with it the deacon you left there.

He will be as thoroughly roasted as a black pudding." "My trouble is extreme," said the servant of God, drying with his sleeve the sweat that gathered upon his brow.


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