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...Later???"Today he asked my hand and offered me his. Of course, I was happy, and naturally accepted. But what will my relatives say to this marriage? But I shall break down all barriers. Titles, money? I shall give up all, to conserve my happiness. My fiancé loves me and I love him. I feel that a new life is spread out before...
Britain. The Ionian isles, of which Corfu is one, belonged in the 18th Century to the Venetian Republic. According to the terms of the peace of Campo Formio, the Republic was divided between France and Austria and the Ionian isles went to France. Later???in the Napoleonic Wars?Britain obtained possession of this group of islands and held them until 1863, when she ceded them to Greece, but, on account of its naval importance, the neutrality of Corfu was guaranteed by the Great Powers of the time. Italy, who was not at that time a united nation, could not sign...
Magnolia. Booth Tarkington tells a tale of the lower Mississippi in the costume and accent of the South of years ago. A most practical young man is ejected from his father's house because he is unwilling to fight a duel. He returns?seven years later???as the notorious "Cunnel" Blake, whose voice makes the forests to tremble. Even the notorious General Orlando Jackson quakes at the roar thereof. But the faithful heroine is not deceived. Beneath the " Cunnel's" roar she still hears the softly sentimental whisper of the poet-lover...