• Short Prose

• Type: Short Story

Eveline's Visitant is a short story by author Mary Elizabeth Braddon. - AsNotedIn

There were many beautiful vipers in those days, and she was one of them. I can feel the chill breath of that August morning blowing in my face, as I sit in my dismal chamber at my chateau of Puy Verdun to-night, alone in the stillness, writing the strange story of my life.

Places

• Eglise Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Paris I shall not record the name of her for love of whom Andre de Brissac and I crossed one of the bridges, in the dim August dawn on our way to the waste ground beyond the church of Saint-Germain des Pres.
• Palais Royal, Paris It was at a masked ball at the Palais Royal that my fatal quarrel with my first cousin Andre de Brissac began.
• Paris, Ile-de-France I can see the white mist rising from the river, the grim outline of the Chatelet, and the square towers of Notre Dame black against the pale-grey sky.
• Tyrol, One fair moonlight night, when we were together in a mountain village in the Tyrol, my wife ....