![]() ![]() and the money her labors might fetch her. ![]() This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. Antonio saw only the glory of being landlord of so fine an inn as the Eagle Celia saw only the work. The average reader, reading at a speed of 300 WPM, would take 6 hours and 22 minutes to read The Silver Devil by Teresa. Teresa Denys, author of The Silver Devil, on LibraryThing. There was little love in their marriage they were as sharp with each other as they were with me, and they squabbled more like ill-matched business partners than like husband and wife. But I had scant leisure then to measure Fidena's temper, for that year my brother, Antonio, married Celia Danoli and my life began to change. It was the sort of heat that breeds discontent in men's minds, that slows a man's blood and quickens his temper so that the city simmers like a pot close to boiling. From the moment he sees the beautiful 18 year old Felicia, he must have her. ![]() Men lay down in the streets and died, and their neighbors would not touch the bodies, not even to drag them out of the all-consuming sun. No womans heart is safe from the Silver Devil. Flies and maggots bred, and the wind was sickly with the expectation of plague. The fetid smell from the bay, where ships lay beached and their cargoes rotted for want of men to unload them, mingled with human sweat and filth in the dust-laden air. ![]()
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