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At this time there arrived at Verona Lady D'Arcy, an English woman of fortune and rank, and a strenuous Catholic. Her husband had lately died ; and in order to divert her grief, as well as to gratify her curiosity in viewing the great seat of her religion, she had come to Italy. Intercourse took place between her and Madame Roselli. By this means she gained a knowledge of my person and condition, and was willing that I should accompany her in all her wanderings. This offer was gratefully accepted in spite of the artifices and remonstrances of Bartoli. My companion speedily contracted for me the affection of a mother. She was without kindred of her own religion, having acquired her faith not by inheritance but conversation. She desired to abjure her native country, and to bind herself by every social tie to a people who adhered the same faith. Me she promised to adopt as her daughter, provided her first impressions in my favour were not belied by my future deportment.

From: The NOVEL NEWSPAPER. Vol. V. Containing:_ KONINGSMARKE, THE LONG FINNE, by Dr. Paulding, ORMOND, OR THE SECRET WITNESS, by Charles Brockden Brown, ABDALLA THE MOOR, AND THE SPANISH KNIGHT, THE INFIDEL'S DOOM, OR CORTES AND THE FALL OF MEXICO, by Dr. Bird, and THE FIELD OF TERROR. Published 1840.

Pirated American literature was also abridged without the authors' consent and presented in low-cost paperback editions in England. The Novel Newspaper, Vol. 5 was “exclusively composed of the works of transatlantic authors, and those of no mean reputation.”—Slavery and Silence: Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate By Paul D. Naish

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At this time there arrived at Verona Lady D'Arcy, an English woman of fortune and rank, and a strenuous Catholic. Her husband had lately died ; and in order to divert her grief, as well as to gratify her curiosity in viewing the great seat of her religion, she had come to Italy. Intercourse took place between her and Madame Roselli. By this means she gained a knowledge of my person and condition, and was willing that I should accompany her in all her wanderings. This offer was gratefully accepted in spite of the artifices and remonstrances of Bartoli. My companion speedily contracted for me the affection of a mother. She was without kindred of her own religion, having acquired her faith not by inheritance but conversation. She desired to abjure her native country, and to bind herself by every social tie to a people who adhered the same faith. Me she promised to adopt as her daughter, provided her first impressions in my favour were not belied by my future deportment.

From: The NOVEL NEWSPAPER. Vol. V. Containing:_ KONINGSMARKE, THE LONG FINNE, by Dr. Paulding, ORMOND, OR THE SECRET WITNESS, by Charles Brockden Brown, ABDALLA THE MOOR, AND THE SPANISH KNIGHT, THE INFIDEL'S DOOM, OR CORTES AND THE FALL OF MEXICO, by Dr. Bird, and THE FIELD OF TERROR. Published 1840.

Pirated American literature was also abridged without the authors' consent and presented in low-cost paperback editions in England. The Novel Newspaper, Vol. 5 was “exclusively composed of the works of transatlantic authors, and those of no mean reputation.”—Slavery and Silence: Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate By Paul D. Naish