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In so far as the age of Lucrezia is concerned, an error is not only possible, but has actually been committed by Saraceni. At least the age given in his letter is wrong by one year, as we know by a legal document drawn up in February of 1491 Lucrezia's contract of marriage with Don Juan Cherubin de Centelles. 2 A contract never executed.
For three weeks the lawyer and his client were closeted, toiling at the multifarious details of that curious document. The minor bequests were speedily arranged, though they were numerous and well considered.
Having seized the document, mistress sow ran off so briskly that not one of the clerks or officials could catch her, in spite of the rulers and ink-bottles they hurled after her. This extraordinary occurrence produced a terrible muddle, for there had not even been a copy taken of the plaint.
He would obey Damaris, absorb the contents of this extraordinary document, the facts it conveyed both explicitly and implicitly, to the last word before he spoke. Happily the remaining words were few. "Your brother," he read, "till death and after" followed by a name and date. At the name he stared fairly confounded. It meant nothing whatever to him. That is, at first.
To William himself is undoubtedly due the material which the document embodies and the argument it contains, but it was almost certainly not written by him, but by his chaplain, Pierre L'Oyseleur, Seigneur de Villiers, to whom it owes its rather ponderous prolixity and redundant verbiage.
"This one you will have to copy, Severin," said Wanda, indicating the second document. "It has to be entirely in your own handwriting; this, of course, isn't necessary in the case of the agreement." I quickly copied the few lines in which I designated myself a suicide, and handed them to Wanda. She read them, and put them on the table with a smile.
They are well aware of this, and therefore make it a rule to draw a very clear distinction, in their editions, between readings found in manuscripts and their own restorations of the text. We possess several copies, which differ from each other, of a document whose original is lost.
But, on the other hand, his information was drawn from a document that, while stained and discoloured with age, had every appearance from my casual inspection of it of being genuine; and, if so, the island might possibly exist, although uncharted.
"That is a good point; and to-morrow the witnesses shall be called," said Mr. Lowington. "I will now ask Dr. Winstock to make his statement," added Paul, turning to the surgeon. "The letter is postmarked 'Anvers," said the doctor, picking up the letter from the table. "It is utterly impossible that Captain Kendall had anything to do with this document." "Why so, sir?" demanded Mr.
"Har-hat Set make a cinder of his heart! asked her at the hands of the Pharaoh for his harem " Mentu interrupted him with a growling imprecation and Hotep's fair face darkened. "Yesterday morning he sent three men to me," the taskmaster continued, "with the document of gift from the Son of Ptah, but she saw them in time and fled into the desert.
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