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Title: Where ghosts walk : the haunts of familiar characters in history and literature
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Harland, Marion, 1830-1922
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Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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her head at night after a day of toil,fastings, and prayers. The stone is pro-tected by a grating from the hands andlips of pitying visitors. A glass framecontains fragments of her veils ; the headand upper part of her walking-stick; thevinaigrette she used in the wards of pest-houses, and to revive the plague-strickencreatures who fell dying in the streets ;the lantern that lighted her steps whensummoned by night on errands of mercy ;and, what drives us out of the house in afit of disgustful impatience, the Borsa ovela portata da Roma da Siena la sacra testadella Santa—the bag in which the head ofthe saint was brought from Rome to Siena. She died at the early age of thirty-three.The next year, the Republic of Sienahaving expressed by a deputation of itscitizens to the Roman Pontiff its jealousyof the honour of the possession of thebody of the saint, the Pope (Urban VI.)ordered the pious mutilation, and pre-sented the head to Catherines nativetown. A peep into Giacomos workshop is a
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ENTRANCE TO SAINT CATHERINES HOUSE. A 14th-century New Woman 127 welcome diversion of unpleasing thoughts.It adjoins the chapel that was his dwell-ing, and opens into the salesroom wherehis wares were exposed for sale. Uponshelves running around three sides of theroom are queer little parcels, all of thesame size, and bearing a surprising re-semblance to neat paint-pots. Each isgayly coloured, and emblazoned with thearms of the noble families whose repre-sentatives have visited the place and lefttokens of reverential esteem for dyer anddaughter. Hurrying out to avert the profanationof a genuine, nineteenth-century laugh,we are arrested upon the stone stair bywhat brings back the tone of thought andspeech we have wished to maintainthroughout what is, in effect, a piouspilgrimage. High up on the wall of a house acrossthe way is a stone label bearing the figureof a goose in bold relief. We are in theWard of the Goose (Contrada dOca), adistrict peopled in 1337, the year of Cath-erine Beni

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