The Duke and the Cousin (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Elizabeth Caroline Grey

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1333039190 ISBN 13 : 9781333039196

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Pride was uiunvely. miliation, and which now obliges him to fly hia country. How people can exceed their income, 1never could conceive; however limited my means In a splendid drawing-room, in one of the finest might have been, I should certainly have curtailed houses in London, where unbounded wealth had my expenses accordingly accumulated every luxury to satisfy even her fastidious taste, Lady Clairville reclined on her velvet fauteuil, listless and unhappj. The surrounding elegance of the apartment, with its costly decorations, was all unheeded by her, and a little writingtable slie had nishcd from before her, and on which lay a half-written note, showed she had found even the task otracing a few lines on the highly-scented paper, wearisome. She was now absorbed in deep meditation ;and the knit brow and compressed lips told that her thoughts were far from satisfactory. Lady Clairville was a beautiful woman; the forty summers which she had numbered had taken nothing from the brilliancy of her eye, or the majesty of her form. Pride and worldly-mindedness had done more to deteriorate tlie loveliness she once possessed ;and the gazer now turned dissatisfied from Jhus spoke the pamperev! child of prosperity, who in the hardness of heart and apathy of feeling engendered by luxury, forgot to pympathize with those who had to struggle with the contending influencea of pride, and povertA-, even though one of their many victims was her brother. She knew not, surrounded as she was by afiluence and splendor, of the sickening desire to keep up appearances, as it is termed, condemned, even while persisted in,by those whose fortune is inadequate to their position in s6- ciety. She could not make allowances for those over whom the arbitrary dominion of the world of fashion was by circumstances established, and whos shrinking pride feels that they are only estimated accordi
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1333039190
• ISBN 13: 9781333039196
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 116
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