The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel

CHAPTER I

For reasons which will be given later, I sit down here, in Verona, to write the history of my extravagant adventure. I shall formulate and expand the rough notes in my diary which lies open before me, and I shall begin with a happy afternoon in May, six months ago.

May 20th.

_London_:--To-day is the seventh anniversary of my release from captivity. I will note ...