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Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster
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Title: Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster
Author: F. Marion Crawford
Release Date: September 18, 2005 [eBook #16720]
Language: English
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The Novels of F. Marion Crawford In Twenty-five Volumes, Authorized Edition
MARZIO'S CRUCIFIX
and
ZOROASTER
by
F. MARION CRAWFORD
With Frontispiece
P.F. Collier & Son New York
1887
[Illustration: HE MOVED NOT THROUGH THE LONG HOURS OF DAY. --Zoroaster.]
[Illustration]
CHAPTER I
"The whole of this modern fabric of existence is a living lie!" cried Marzio Pandolfi, striking his little hammer up