Noemi by Sabine Baring-Gould is the story of a daring and ravishingly beautiful young woman named Noemi and her new friend, the shy and responsible Jean del' Peyra. Excerpt: "JEAN DEL' PEYRA was standing scraping a staff to form a lance-shaft. The sun shone hot upon him, and at his feet lay his shadow as a blot. He was too much engrossed in his work to look about him, till he heard a voice call from somewhere above his head— "Out of the way, clown!"