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Updated: May 6, 2025

"The flowers of the saints and martyrs!" she said, "I do not wonder that the artists chose them for that purpose; they are so white-and pure-and passionless . . ." A slight crash disturbed her self-communion, and she hastened to see what had fallen. It was a small clay figure of "Eros", a copy of a statuette found in the ruins of Pompeii. The nail supporting its bracket had given way.

Marie Corelli - The Master-Christian