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The Marble Faun
Volume II.

CHAPTER XLV
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Surely you remember her, among all the mortals to whose confessions you have listened! For she alone could have had no sins to reveal." "Yes; I remember," said the priest, with a gleam of recollection in his eyes.

"She was made to bear a miraculous testimony to the efficacy of the divine ordinances of the Church, by seizing forcibly upon one of them, and finding immediate relief from it, heretic though she was.
It is my purpose to publish a brief narrative of this miracle, for the edification of mankind, in Latin, Italian, and English, from the printing press of the Propaganda.

Poor child! Setting apart her heresy, she was spotless, as you say.

And is she dead ?" "Heaven forbid, father!" exclaimed Kenyon, shrinking back.

"But she has gone from me, I know not whither.


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