Excerpt from The Corsican Lovers: A Story of the Vendetta You have no right, Pascal, to command me to marry a man whom I do not love. The speaker was a young girl not more than eighteen years of age. AS she Spoke, the flashing Of her eyes and her clenched hands betokened the intensity Of her feel ings. The person to whom the words were addressed was a man of about forty. He was smooth-shaven, and the black, shaggy eyebrows which met above the bridge of his nose, gave to his face a stem and almost forbidding expression. He did not reply to his sister's impassioned words for some time, but sat, apparently unconcerned, tapping lightly on the library table with the fingers Of his right hand. At last he spoke I do not command you, Vivienne; all I ask is that you will comply with your father's dying wish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.