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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LORA, THE GODDESS OF LOVE. The goddess, Lora, gave her name to the mountain lite man, and truly elegant in his manners. His deceptive arts were carried to a rare degree of perfection and finesse. All the authorities with whom he had to deal, have one after another become the dupes of this extraordinary being. At length, however, fate decreed his arrest, after he had made preparations to be conveyed by a vessel from Hamburgh to the Brazils. Ric- chelman was born at Hildesheim, and is the son of a postmaster. He is so notorious for his thievish propensities, that he has justly been called the Cartouche of Germany. He appears to possess the necromancy of ancient times, and has the art of disguising himself so effectually as not to be recognized. When the French were at Bremen, he escaped in the dress of a gendarme. His appearance is frequently so sudden and perplexing, that the peasants have pronounced him invisible. The genius of the man is so extremely subtle, that it has been alleged that he often went to hear trials merely to amuse himself and to laugh at the judges. On board of the vessel which was to convey him to the Brazils he had concealed a quantity of gold, but nobody knew where. He had his passports, certificates, and all other documents necessary for his safety apparently in the greatest order. It is said he has numerous adherents all along the borders of the Wever, where the inhabitants seldom venture out of their houses in the evenings.?Bremen Gazette. In some other of the provincial idioms, the name is spelled and pronounced Lara.?Or. fastnesses, so entitled, amidst the 11 art/. Before the appearance of the Saxon-queller, Charles, when the mountain heroes refused to be baptized by his holy St. Winfred, save in their blood, the place was held in g...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217545228 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021754522X |
| Weight | 0.58 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.40 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 174 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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