Excerpt from Donizetti's Opera Lucia Di Lammermoor: Containing the Italian d104, With an English Translation, and the Music of All the Principal Airs He (lord Henry) is at this time ignorant of an attach ment which exists between his sister Lucy and Sir Edgar Ravenswood, whose family has long been in a state of deadly enmity with his own. Sir Edgar, absent on an embassy to France to look to the Interests of his native country, Scotland, despatches many letters to his beloved Lucy: these letters are intercepted, and a forged paper, tending to show the infidelity of Sir Edgar, is shown to the bewildered maiden. 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.