Excerpt from Broken Fetters, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel Ludovico, now his own master, was in no hurry to marry. He led a dissolute life, entered into all the vices of the high-born youth of Genoa, gambled extensively, and gave himself up to all kinds of excesses. It was at this period also he carried off the sister of Vachero, who fortunately escaped from his country house. The Lady Bianca Carignano remained ignorant of this transaction of her faithless lover, and though incensed at the indifference he exhibited in urging her father to fulfil his part of the contract, yet so infatuated was she -then scarcely sixteen years of age - by the handsome person and insinuating manners of her lover, that she remained totally blind to his faults, let alone his vices. 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.