Produced by KD Weeks, Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. A superscripted character is denoted by ‘^’. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. The footnotes have been moved to follow the paragraph in which they are referenced. THE WORKS OF ANATOLE FRANCE IN AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION EDITED BY FREDERIC CHAPMAN MOTHER OF PEARL [Illustration: decoration] MOTHER OF PEARL BY ANATOLE FRANCE A TRANSLATION BY FREDERIC CHAPMAN [Illustration: decoration] LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY: MCMVIII WM. BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH CONTENTS PAGE THE PROCURATOR OF JUDÆA 3 AMYCUS AND CELESTINE 29 THE LEGEND OF SAINTS OLIVERIA AND LIBERETTA 39 ST. EUPHROSINE 55 SCHOLASTICA 75 OUR LADY’S JUGGLER 83 THE MASS OF SHADOWS 97 LESLIE WOOD 109 GESTAS 129 THE MANUSCRIPT OF A VILLAGE DOCTOR 143 MEMOIRS OF A VOLUNTEER 161 DAWN 225 MADAME DE LUZY 243 THE BOON OF DEATH BESTOWED 257 A TALE OF THE MONTH OF FLORÉAL IN THE YEAR II 265 THE LITTLE LEADEN SOLDIER 277 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE PROCURATOR OF JUDÆA MOTHER OF PEARL THE PROCURATOR OF JUDÆA