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THE PEARL AMONG THE VIRTUES
At the wish of Charles II., king of Sicily, he married, when still very young, Delphine de Sinhas, a lady of noble birth and of exquisite virtue. But before their marriage, they made a vow of perpetual chastity. It would be difficult to find a household more orderly, more edifying, than that of Eleazar and Delphine, At the same time, Eleazar was a real father to his subjects, a nobleman and knight in the truest sense of the word. He enjoyed such confidence at court, that the king entrusted him with the education of his own son, and ordered him to sue, in behalf of the latter, for the hand of the daughter of the Duke of Valois. How often must not Eleazar have called to
