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The Venetians
M. E. Braddon
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About this book
A man is forced to kill his assailant and go on the run, resulting in lifelong guilt entangled with secrecy, jealousy, vengeance, and love.
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- Titlepage
- Imprint
- I: In the City by the Sea
- II: Afterthoughts
- III: “Fairies!”
- IV: “The Prelude to Some Brighter World”
- V: Teatime in Arcadia
- VI: Why Should He Refrain?
- VII: He Would Take His Time
- VIII: A Face in the Crowd
- IX: “Though Love, and Life, and Death Should Come and Go”
- X: “As Things That Are Not Shall These Things Be”
- XI: “One Thread in Life Worth Spinning”
- XII: “One Born to Love You, Sweet”
- XIII: “The Time of Lovers Is Brief”
- XIV: As a Spirit from Dream to Dream
- XV: “Love Should Be Absolute Love”
- XVI: To Live Forgotten and Love Forlorn
- XVII: “She Was More Fair Than Words Can Say”
- XVIII: “The Shadow Passeth When the Tree Shall Fall”
- XIX: “He Said, ‘She Has a Lovely Face’ ”
- XX: Peggy’s Chance
- XXI: “From the Evil to Come”
- XXII: “So Very Wilful”
- XXIII: The Little Rift
- XXIV: “Poor Kind Wild Eyes So Dashed with Light Quick Tears”
- XXV: “And Every Gentle Passion Sick to Death”
- XXVI: “Closer and Closer Swam the Thundercloud”
- XXVII: “Thou Mayst Be False and Yet I Know It Not”
- XXVIII: In the Blue Chamber
- XXIX: “ ’Tis Not the Same Now, Never More Can Be”
- XXX: A Double Exile
- XXXI: “Oh Tell Her, Brief Is Life, but Love Is Long”
- XXXII: “A Scene of Light and Glory”
- XXXIII: “Both Together, He Her God, She His Idol”
- Colophon
- Uncopyright
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Edition contributors
- The League of Moveable Type (tyd)
- M. E. Braddon (aut)
- Robert Frederick Blum (art)
- Peter Becker (trc)
- Hannah Wilson (trc)
- Distributed Proofreaders (trc)
- Anonymous (bkp, blw, cov, mrk, pfr, tyg)
- Weijia Cheng (pfr)