AFTER THE PARDON
BY
MATILDE SERAO
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
To that glorious soul
ELEONORA DUSE