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." "At old Fulcher's! that's not true, brother.

Meridiana is a Borzlam, and travels with her own people, and not with old Fulcher, who is a gorgio and a basket-maker." "I was not speaking of old Fulcher, but Pulci, a great Italian writer, who lived many hundred years ago, and who, in his poem called the 'Morgante Maggiore,' speaks of Meridiana, the daughter of.

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." "Old Carus Borzlam," said Ursula; "but if the fellow you mention lived so many hundred years ago, how, in the name of wonder, could he know anything of Meridiana ?" "The wonder, Ursula, is, how your people could ever have got hold of that name, and similar ones.