D'Artagnan, the King Maker — page 85: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

76 The Storm. prophesied in the “Almanac of the Good Farmer!’ ” said a voice. Since the eruption of Vesuvius, only ten years previ- ously, those evil prophets who abound to the correction of the unduly mirthful, delighted in drawing ink from its soot to write “murkiness to man” in the pamphlets cher- ished ‘by the populace, and which they thad read to them by the less illiterate. “Mother of Mercy, forfend that my husband should be on ‘the sea!” This wish ‘was at the ‘heart of all the fishers’ wives, and they set up a wail which would have dispirited a bachelor without a ‘heart. But Donna Jacinta was un- affected. “Lady,” said she to her mistress, “let us pray that he may not be exposed tto the malice of men; it is even more to ‘be dreaded than this wrath of the skies!” “A young sprite!” muttered Sebio to his fellows; “but she is right. Eomichooks:co im