Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U. S. A. Among the day-dreams of the Rulers of Venice the island of Cyprus had long loomed large and fair--Cyprus, the happy isle of romance, _l'isola fortunata_, sea-girdled, clothed with dense forests of precious woods, veined with inexhaustible mines of rich metals; a very garden of luscious fruits, garlanded with ever-blooming flowers--a land flowing with milk and honey and steeped in the fragrance of wines that a god might covet.…
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