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The Story of Her Development by Olive Pratt Rayner

, Published in Jan 1970 by BiblioLife, LLC

ISBN10: 1147373906 | ISBN13: 9781147373905

Excerpt from Rosalba: The Story of Her Development
I Saw him first on the Monti Berici, near Vicenza.
"By him you would say, of course, the man you were to marry."
Now, you dear, sophisticated English reader, marriage-ridden as you are, with your crystallised and stereotyped Teutonic ideas, do you indeed imagine I would thus forestall my whole tale at the outset? If you do, you are far from the Kingdom of the South; you fail to comprehend the Mediterranean temperament.
In Italy marriage is an institution; love is a romance. We do not say Aim of the man our parents design us to marry.