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_Title:_ The Nuptials of Corbal
_Date of first publication:_ 1926
_Author:_ Rafael Sabatini (1875-1950)
_Date first posted:_ May 4, 2018
_Date last updated:_ May 4, 2018
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[Cover Illustration]

[Illustration: HER KNEES WERE LOOSENED AND SHE SANK DOWN AGAIN,
LEANING SIDEWAYS AGAINST HER DAUGHTER (_page 8_)]

THE NUPTIALS OF
CORBAL

BY
RAFAEL SABATINI

With illustrations by
HAROLD BRETT

[Illustration]

Boston and New York
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1927

=The Riverside Press=
CAMBRIDGE • MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

ILLUSTRATIONS

HER KNEES WERE LOOSENED AND SHE SANK
DOWN AGAIN, LEANING SIDEWAYS AGAINST
HER DAUGHTER _Frontispiece_
A MOMENT CHAUVINIÈRE DETAINED HER, TO
SCRUTINIZE HER WITH AN EYE THAT MISSED
NO DETAIL 48
‘YOU ARE NOT TO SUPPOSE THAT ENGINE
. . . IS BEING ERECTED THERE MERELY AS
AN IDLE ORNAMENT TO YOUR TOWN’ 86
‘WHO ARE YOU? WHAT ARE YOU? AND WHY ARE
YOU DRESSED AS A MAN?’ 122
‘GOD OF HEAVEN!’ HE CRIED OUT AT LAST.
‘THAT IS CORBAL.’ 190

T H E N U P T I A L S O F
C O R B A L
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