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Lady Penelope

By Morley Roberts

2019-11-23 18:54:16

All the absurd birthday celebrations were over, and Penelope was twenty-one. She declared that her whole life was to be devoted to reform. She meant to reform society, to make it good and useful and straightforward, and simple and utterly delightful ... Read more
All the absurd birthday celebrations were over, and Penelope was twenty-one. She declared that her whole life was to be devoted to reform. She meant to reform society, to make it good and useful and straightforward, and simple and utterly delightful. She let it be understood that men were in great need of her particular attention. They were too selfish and self-centered, too extravagant, too critical of each other, too vain. They acknowledged it humbly when she mentioned it, for Lady Penelope Brading's beauty was something to see and to talk of; major and minor poets agreed about it; artists desired to paint her and failed, as they always do when true loveliness shines on them. She had the colour of a Titian; the contours of a Correggio; the witchery of a Reynolds, and under wonderful raiment the muscles of a young Greek athlete. She wiped out any society in which she moved. When sweet Eclipse showed herself, the rest were nowhere. Less

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File size522.586 KB
Print pages384
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2019-03-15
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1010310778
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Morley Roberts
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Morley Roberts (29 December 1857 – 8 June 1942) was an English novelist and short-story writer, best known for The Private Life of Henry Maitland. Roberts was born in London, the son of a superinten...

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