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In the same field in which some light work was appointed me, I saw an old blind woman attached like a mule to a plough, and driven on by blows from a heavy stick. She was a Christian slave, whose eyes had been put out in wanton cruelty. I learned that she was an Italian by birth, a native of a small village in the environs of Porto Fiero, a seaport not far from Genoa.
In the latter he describes the career of that predestined child whom legend accompanied from his cradle to the grave. "La Fiëro de St. Urbo," curious picture of the manners of the country, is written in that ironical and gay vein of which the older French writers possessed the secret; but that is now fast dying away.
"I'm sure he isn't worth so much savagery," Lucy said. "You are like Ugolino and poor Francis is your fiero pasto." James instantly corrected himself. "My besetting sin, Lucy. But I must observe " He applied his glazed eye to her feet "the colour of your stockings, my friend. Ha! a tinge of blue, upon my oath!"
She maintained that she owed to the amulet her unexpected return to Italy." "Does she still live?" asked Mary. "When in sight of Italy, I put her on board of a boat bound to Porto Fiero; I gave her a small sum of money, and begged the boatman to attend to her comforts. Poor Teresa Mostajo that is her name I doubt not, is living peacefully in her native village, and prays much for me.
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