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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
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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
PART I
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Solis Occasu7
PART II
The Pardon81
PART III
Usque ad Mortem245
To that glorious soul ELEONORA DUSE