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PART I SOLIS OCCASU I

PART II THE PARDON I

PART III USQUE AD MORTEM I

AFTER   THE   PARDON

AFTER THE PARDON

BY
MATILDE  SERAO


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NEW YORK
THE STUYVESANT PRESS
1909


Copyright, 1909, by
The Stuyvesant Press,
New York.

FOREWARD

In this romance, the author has vividly pictured the ravishing fierceness of the love which sways the Latins and bends them to its desires. Graphically she has shown how their passions force them beyond all laws and duties, beyond all vows. In them the emotional nature and the finer intelligence are ever at variance. They confuse that rude instinct which is jealousy, physical and base, with the higher and more ardent love—the virile affirmation of possession with the fresher, more vigorous desire of love’s happiness—but this does not make their passions more trivial nor less consuming.

The author’s gifts are of rare quality. She delves alike into the souls of her characters and into their more animal humanity, and contrasts their weaknesses with their strength in a striking manner.

The story is of the intensest interest.

F. F.

CONTENTS

PART I
  PAGE
Solis Occasu 7
PART II
The Pardon 81
PART III
Usque ad Mortem 245

 

To that glorious soul
ELEONORA DUSE

 

AFTER THE PARDON


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