Excerpt from Francesca Carrara, Vol. 2 of 3 "To people who have naturally very intense feelings, nothing is so wearing to the heart as the curtailed affections which are the offspring of the world." Devereux. Marie Mancini returned with her sister to Paris, and, for the next week, the whole hotel was hurry and confusion with the approaching nuptials. Her manner to Francesca was very unequal. Sometimes it had all the frankness of their early intimacy; at other times it was forbidding, and even petulant. On the very night before her marriage, when, at a late hour, Francesca was seeking her own room, as she passed along the corridor, Marie's door opened, and Marie herself appeared. "I knew your step - do come in, for the last time here." 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.