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Penguin Island

BOOK III
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Then he rattled two dice in a dicebox and said to him: "Will you play with me for the kingdoms of, the world against one of the hairs of your head ?" But the man of the Lord, armed with the sign of the Cross, repulsed the enemy.

Perceiving that he could not seduce him, the devil thought of an artful plan to ruin him.

One summer night he approached the queen, who slept upon her couch, showed her an image of the young monk whom she saw every day in the wooden monastery, and upon this image he placed a spell.

Forthwith, like a subtle poison, love flowed into Glamorgan's veins, and she burned with an ardent desire to do as she listed with Oddoul.

She found unceasing pretexts to have him near her.


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