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IN MAREMMA.

Man had remembered him, and God released him!

He was so happy.

Only through his heart one sharp pang shot, as though a dagger pierced it.

They could give him back his freedom and his youth, but never more could life return to that dead woman slain, in the season of her youth, by the waters of Mantua.