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Excerpt from The Birthright, Vol. 3 of 3: And Other Tales People are fond of talking of the hereditary feuds of Italy, - the factions of the Capulets and Montagues, the Orsini and Colonne, - and, more especially, of the memorable Vendette of Corsica; - as if hatred and revenge were solely endemic in the regions of The Pyrenean and the river Po. Mere prejudice! - There is as good hating going on in England as elsewhere. Independently of the personal antipathies generated by politics, and the envy, hatred, and malice arising out of every election contest, not a country neighbourhood but has its raging factions; and Browns and Smiths often cherish and maintain an antagonism every whit as bitter as that of the sanguinary progenitors of Romeo and Juliet. 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.