Corsican Lovers

Excerpt: "“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 feelings. 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 ...