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Corpo di Bacco! who ever heard, either, of a lazzarone's refusing a ducat!" Raoul then whispered a few words to Ithuel, when, the boat being by this time far enough ahead, he gave it a sheer alongside of the ship, seized a man-rope, and went up the cleets as actively as a cat.
After a long account of St Januarius, including the well-known miracle of the liquefaction of his blood, and some amusing illustrations of his immense popularity with the Neapolitans, M. Dumas, in two pithy lines, gives us the length, breadth, and thickness of a lazzarone's religion. "I was one day in a church at Naples," he says, "and I heard a lazzarone praying aloud.
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