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Висенте Бласко-Ибаньес
The Shadow of the Cathedral
The following day he was carried out of the prison infirmary on men's shoulders to disappear in the common grave.
The earth kept the secret of his death, that frowning Mother who watches men's struggles impassively, knowing that all grandeur and ambitions, all miseries and follies must rot in her breast, with no other object than the fertilisation and renovation of life.
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N.B.—The jewels were stolen from the sacristy of Toledo Cathedral in 1868.