Excerpt from The Fantastic History of the Celebrated Pierrot: Written by the Magician Alcofribas, and Translated From the Sogdian

As she went in Pierrot stopped crying, and held out his arms to her. Aurora was so charmed that She took him at once, embraced him, caressed him, put him to sleep, replaced him in his cradle, and would not leave the mill till she had made them promise she Should be the child's godmother.

On the next day she became Pierrot's sponsor, and wanted, as was customary, to make him a present.

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