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TEMPTATION.
dark deep blue of the sky had scarcely a single cloud to speck it. The bright sun shone upon the broad open sea, and as one long line of wave rose and plunged on the shore after another, a sheet of white foam broke upon the pebbles that lined the beach, and made them glitter in the sun- shine as if they had been as many jewels. There was to be a ship launched. A beautiful ship, which the builder had taken the greatest pains to frame and put together so as to be quite a model and pattern of beauty, was to be sent afloat upon the wide waters. The owner had fitted it up with everything which would
