To Bethlehem, where went the woman whose blue robe was bordered with a glow of fair luminousness and whose face, like an uplifted lily, softly shone.
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That day was Clotilde herself, she in person; he saw it as the woman, and saw himself translucent in the great luminousness; and behind it all was dark, as in front.
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The pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue-but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out.
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