AFTER THE PARDON
Spring Publications
OF
The Stuyvesant Press
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A Woman of Uncertain Age
By MARY ANNE BERRY
After The Pardon
By MATILDE SERAO
The Woman Herself
Anonymous
The Isle of Temptation
By ARTHUR STANLEY COLLETON
The Woman, The Man and The Monster
By CARLETON DAWE
The Diary of a Lost One
Ed. by MARGARETE BÖHME
All the above, cloth, 12mo
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 ravishingfierceness of the love which sways the Latins and bends them to itsdesires. Graphically she has shown how their passions force them beyondall laws and duties, beyond all vows. In them the emotional nature andthe finer intelligence are ever at variance. They confuse that rudeinstinct which is jealousy, physical and base, with the higher and moreardent love—the virile affirmation of possession with the fresher, morevigorous desire of love’s happiness—but this does not make theirpassions more trivial nor less consuming.
The author’s gifts are of rare quality. She delves alike into the soulsof her characters and into their more animal humanity, and contraststheir 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
PART I
SOLIS OCCASU
I
Donna Maria Guasco Simonetti, gracefully stretched on the sofa andimmersed in the many s