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  The mayor had complained about the cost, but Berta would not listen, and so they had no choice. Building work was due to start the following week.

  "And now you are finally going to do as I suggested, my girl. One thing I can tell you with absolute certainty: life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it."

  Chantal smiled, gave her a kiss, and turned her back on Viscos for the last time. The old woman was right: there was no time to lose, though she hoped that her life would be very long indeed.

  About the Author

  PAULO COELHO is one of the most beloved authors of our time. With sales of more than 75 million copies worldwide, his books have been translated into 61 languages and published in 150 countries. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious international awards, among them the Crystal Award by the World economic Forum, France's Chevalier de l'ordre National de la legion d'Honneur, and Germany's Bambi 2001 Award. He was inducted into the Brazilian Academy of letters in 2002. Mr. Coelho also writes a weekly column syndicated throughout the world.

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  Copyright

  THE DEVIL AND MISS PRYM. Copyright (c) 2000 by Paulo Coelho. English translation copyright (c) 2001 by Amanda Hopkinson and Nick Caistor. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  EPub (c) Edition JUNE 2006 ISBN: 9780061844867

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Coelho, Paulo.

  [Demonio e a Srta. Prym. English]

  The Devil and Miss Prym : a novel of temptation / Paulo Coelho ; translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Nick Caistor.

  p. cm.

  ISBN-10: 0-06-052799-4

  ISBN-13: 978-0-06-052799-0

  10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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