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Manuel's blood and Jurgen's ran in the veins of Florian de Puysange?a heroic but discomfortable inheritance. It did not help him to live easily in this world...
Even as a child he had strange adventures. Melusine, the immortal elvish sorceress, found him daydreaming one day, took him into the forest of Acaire. There was a high place in the middle of that wood. There Florian beheld Melior, asleep beneath a coverlet of violet wool in her father's bemagicked palace, and, having seen the perfect beauty of Melior, all great satisfaction in mortal women was spoiled for him. When he grew up, it is true, he married four times, lived a life of extreme if elegant debauchery and committed crimes too numerous to note. But in spite...
They bargained for two prizes, Melior and the sword, Flamberge. For the sword Florian promised Janicot the life of the greatest man in France; for brief happiness with Melior, the life of the first child born to Melior and Florian...
...Monsieur, I am Puysange," said Florian, "There will be a child...
...Florian won his desire and brought Melior home as his duchess. Then his disenchantment began. Melior was as beautiful as day?a beautiful, chattering fool. And as for Holy St. Hoprig, whom Florian discovered alive in the flesh?the saint's conversation alone destroyed Florian's belief in holiness completely. The child of .sacrifice was born, and then the end came an end too odd and unexpected for us to reveal here. Suffice it to say that it taught Florian that the great law of living is "thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor" and that wisdom...