The mountain has been hollowed out by vanished rivers, there are fissures a half-mile deep, vast unexplored caves, primeval forests of chestnut and oak, and the ruins of nuragic villages visited only by armed shepherds. The visitor to these parts from the outside world is warned not to leave the road, for this is the traditional stronghold of the bandit and of the vendetta.
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Memories are long in vendetta country and it is nothing for a man to nurse his private vengeance for ten years or more – even to appear to have become reconciled to his enemy – while he awaits the right time and place for the settlement of the score.
Lewis/Selected
THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT 
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