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The Price of Love
The story revolves around Rachel Louisa Fleckring, a young girl working as a companion to the elderly Mrs. Maldon, who exudes charm and a sense of old-world elegance.
"The Price of Love" by Arnold Bennett is a novel. The story revolves around Rachel Louisa Fleckring, a young girl working as a companion to the elderly Mrs. Maldon, who exudes charm and a sense of old-world elegance.
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In the evening dimness of old Mrs. Maldon's sitting-room stood the youthful virgin, Rachel Louisa Fleckring. The prominent fact about her appearance was that she wore an apron. Not one of those white, waist-tied aprons, with or without bibs, worn proudly, uncompromisingly, by a previous generation of unaspiring housewives and housegirls! But an immense blue pinafore-apron, covering the whole front of the figure except the head, hands, and toes. Its virtues were that it fully protected the most fragile frock against all the perils of the kitchen; and that it could be slipped on or off in one second, without any manipulation of tapes, pins, or buttons and buttonholes—for it had no fastenings of any sort and merely yawned behind. In one second the drudge could be transformed into the elegant infanta of boudoirs, and vice versa. To suit the coquetry of the age the pinafore was enriched with certain flouncings, which, however, only intensified its unshapen ugliness.
Contents
- 01Chapter I
- 02Money in the House
- 03Chapter II
- 04Louis' Discovery
- 05Chapter III
- 06The Feast
- 07Chapter IV
- 08In the Night
- 09Chapter V
- 10News of the Night
- 11Chapter VI
- 12Theories of the Theft
- 13Chapter VII
- 14The Cinema
- 15Chapter VIII
- 16End and Beginning
- 17Chapter IX
- 18The Married Woman
- 19Chapter X
- 20The Chasm
- 21Chapter XI
- 22Julian's Document
- 23Chapter XII
- 24Runaway Horses
- 25Chapter XIII
- 26Chapter XIV
- 27The Market
- 28Chapter XV
- 29The Changed Man
- 30Chapter XVI
- 31The Letter
- 32Chapter XVII
- 33In the Monastery
- 34Chapter XVIII
- 35Mrs. Tams's Strange Behaviour
- 36Chapter XIX
- 37Rachel and Mr. Horrocleave
About this edition
- Author
- Arnold Bennett
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 440 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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