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Title: The Amulet

Author: Hendrik Conscience

Release Date: October 22, 2004 [EBook #13835]

Language: English

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THE AMULET.

BY HENDRIK CONSCIENCE,

AUTHOR OF "THE CURSE OF THE VILLAGE,"
"THE HAPPINESS OF BEING RICH,"
"VEVA,"
"THE LION OF FLANDERS,"
"COUNT HUGO OF CRAENHOVE,"
"WOODEN CLARA,"
"THE POOR GENTLEMAN,"
"RICKETICKETACK,"
"THE DEMON OF GOLD,"
"THE VILLAGE INN-KEEPER,"
"THE CONSCRIPT," "BLIND ROSA,"
"THE MISER,"
"THE FISHERMAN'S DAUGHTER," ETC.

Translated Expressly for this Edition.

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

In the "Amulet," Hendrick Conscience has worked up an incident which
occurred at Antwerp, in the 16th century, into a story of great power
and deep interest. It was a dark and bloody deed committed, but swift
and terrible was the retribution, strikingly illustrating how God
laughs the sinner to scorn, and how the most cunningly devised schemes
are frustrated, when He permits the light of His avenging justice to
expose them in their enormity. On the contrary, it forcibly proves that
virtuous actions, sooner or later, bear abundant fruit even in this
world. If a man's sins bring upon his head a weight of woe, so do his
good deeds draw down the benedictions of heaven and serve as a shield to
protect him from his enemies.

S.J.F.

_Baltimore_.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. PAGE
ANTWERP 9

CHAPTER II.
SIGNOR DEODATI 30

CHAPTER III.
THE PALACE OF SIMON TURCHI, AND WHAT OCCURRED THERE 43

CHAPTER IV.
THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION--THE ASSASSINATOR SLAIN 64

CHAPTER V.
VAN DE WERVE'S RECEPTION--SIMON TURCHI'S JEALOUSY
AND HATRED 79

CHAPTER VI.
SIMON TURCHI WREAKS HIS VENGEANCE ON GERONIMO 96

CHAPTER VII.
GRIEF AT GERONIMO'S ABSENCE--TURCHI'S HYPOCRISY 112