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Excerpt from Diamond Cut Diamond, Vol. 2: A Story of Tuscan Life and Other Stories
Pestilence came, and famine came. And, as we find from the historians, without surprise, all the means which were adopted for the remedy of these evils only seemed to make matters worse. The gathering of masses of the people in processions and in the churches to implore the interposition of the Virgin did not stay the pestilence; and the prohibition of all commercial intercourse or trans port of commodities, failed to alleviate the scarcity. But though we may not be astonished at these phenomena, the seventeenth-century Tuscans were so. It was a terrible disgrazia; a tremendous indi cation that the favour of Heaven was withdrawn from the land. And every man saw in the general af?iction a castigation due to the sins of his neighbours.
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