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Marianela

Chapter 33: The Eleventh Commandment
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The narrative follows Nela, an impoverished orphan who guides and comforts a blind young man whose affection elevates her place in his inner world. A compassionate physician proposes and effects the restoration of sight, and the arrival of visible beauty and social expectations reshapes relationships: the once-blind man’s perceptions and attachments shift, leaving Nela exposed to rejection and despair. Set in a rural mining district, the story contrasts inner worth with outward appearance, examines social inequality and the ethical weight of medical intervention, and moves from pastoral tenderness to a quietly devastating, tragic resolution.

The Eleventh Commandment

A ROMANCE

BY

ANTON GIULIO BARRILI

From the Italian by Clara Bell


"It is an attractive little novel, spirited in plot, and marked by a charming grace in the telling. It is at once bright, witty and delicate, is simple in design, but has a marked dramatic interest. The characters are brilliantly sketched, the dialogue is spirited, and there is an unconventionality in the work as a whole that makes it thoroughly delightful reading."—Boston Saturday Evening Gazette, May 28, 1882.

"There is more to the work than appears on the surface, many passages being fruitful subjects for psychological meditation. The characters are all well drawn, especially those of the serious-minded prior, the obese and tractable uncle, and the grandiloquent sub-prefect. The author is an unusually good painter of human nature, and the ease and naturalness of his style is refreshing. No fault is to be found with the translation."—Boston Evening Transcript, May 20, 1882.


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