PART I

_ASHES_

(_CENERE_)

_A SARDINIAN STORY_

_BY_

_GRAZIA DELEDDA_

_TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN_

_BY_

_HELEN HESTER COLVILL_

_Author of "The Stepping-Stone,"

&c., and Translator of Grazia

Deledda's "Nostalgia," the Serial

in the Fortnightly Review, 1895.

_LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD_

_NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPY. MCMVIII_

CONTENTS

PART I

Chapter

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII