oderno)

3. The Saint
(Il Santo)

The first of these romances is an impassioned
story of lovers struggling to break the barriers
of aristocratic prejudice that oppose their marriage.
It is also a story of patriotism--of the freeing of
Italy from the Austrian yoke.

In _The Sinner_, the second book of this Trilogy,
we read the dramatic story of Piero Maironi, the
son of the hero of _The Patriot_, and of his love for
the beautiful Jeanne Dessalle,--a story that presents
a vivid picture of the Italian world of rank
and fashion, and involves, too, a study of political
and ecclesiastical life.

In _The Saint_, the concluding novel in the series,
the hero of _The Sinner_ and the lover of Jeanne
Dessalle appears as a penitent full of religious
zeal that finds a double outlet--in asceticism
and works of mercy and in an attempt to reform
the Church of Rome from within.

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

New York London

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Archaic and inconsistent hyphenation was retained as printed.

Page 3 "once" replaces "one" (the voice groaned one more)

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explored the the kitchen...)

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