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gloomy Calvinism shall rob these south European 

 nations of their glad May dances, and condemn 

 them to a life as dull and joyless as our own. The 

 Ligurians have no monopoly of bigotry ; and if we 

 must have a superstition, a bright is better than a 

 gloomy one. 



. FIREFLY, LUCIOLA. 



