Word: hoprig
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...true, he married four times, lived a life of extreme if elegant debauchery and committed crimes too numerous to note. But in spite of all that, he maintained the romantic faith of a child in beauty and holiness?the beauty of Melior, of Acaire?the holiness of Holy St. Hoprig, his patron in Heaven. And then, on the eve of his fifth marriage, he encountered Janicot, a sedate and uncanny personage with curious feet and many damnable names...
...Florian won his desire and brought Melior home as his duchess. Then his disenchantment began. Melior was as beautiful as day?a beautiful, chattering fool. And as for Holy St. Hoprig, whom Florian discovered alive in the flesh?the saint's conversation alone destroyed Florian's belief in holiness completely. The child of .sacrifice was born, and then the end came an end too odd and unexpected for us to reveal here. Suffice it to say that it taught Florian that the great law of living is "thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor" and that wisdom...
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