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Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten
After being mistakenly declared dead during a cholera outbreak, Italian Count Fabio Romani escapes his tomb and discovers his wife and best friend have been conducting an affair.
"Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten" by Marie Corelli is a romance novel. After being mistakenly declared dead during a cholera outbreak, Italian Count Fabio Romani escapes his tomb and discovers his wife and best friend have been conducting an affair.
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I, who write this, am a dead man. Dead legally—dead by absolute proofs—dead and buried! Ask for me in my native city and they will tell you I was one of the victims of the cholera that ravaged Naples in 1884, and that my mortal remains lie moldering in the funeral vault of my ancestors. Yet—I live! I feel the warm blood coursing through my veins—the blood of thirty summers—the prime of early manhood invigorates me, and makes these eyes of mine keen and bright—these muscles strong as iron—this hand powerful of grip—this well-knit form erect and proud of bearing. Yes!—I am alive, though declared to be dead; alive in the fullness of manly force—and even sorrow has left few distinguishing marks upon me, save one. My hair, once ebony-black, is white as a wreath of Alpine snow, though its clustering curls are thick as ever.
“A constitutional inheritance?” asks one physician, observing my frosted locks.
“Exposure to intense heat?” hints a third.
I answer none of them. I did so once. I told my story to a man I met by chance—one renowned for medical skill and kindliness. He heard me to the end in evident incredulity and alarm, and hinted at the possibility of madness. Since then I have never spoken.
Contents
- 01Preface
- 02Vendetta!
- 03Chapter I.
- 04Chapter II.
- 05Chapter III.
- 06Chapter IV.
- 07Chapter V.
- 08Chapter VI.
- 09Chapter VII.
- 10Chapter VIII.
- 11Chapter IX.
- 12Chapter X.
- 13Chapter XI.
- 14Chapter XII.
- 15Chapter XIII.
- 16Chapter XIV.
- 17Chapter XV.
- 18Chapter XVI.
- 19Chapter XVII.
- 20Chapter XVIII.
- 21Chapter XIX.
- 22Chapter XX.
- 23Chapter XXI.
- 24Chapter XXII.
- 25Chapter XXIII.
- 26Chapter XXIV.
- 27Chapter XXV.
- 28Chapter XXVI.
- 29Chapter XXVII.
- 30Chapter XXVIII.
- 31Chapter XXIX.
- 32Chapter XXX.
- 33Chapter XXXI.
- 34Chapter XXXII.
- 35Chapter XXXIII.
- 36Chapter XXXIV.
- 37Chapter XXXV.
- 38Chapter XXXVI.
- 39Chapter XXXVII.
About this edition
- Author
- Marie Corelli
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 387 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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