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The Heart of a Woman
Louise Harris leads a comfortable, predictable life as a well-bred English woman until her engagement to Luke de Mountford is threatened by an unexpected rival for his uncle's fortune.
"The Heart of a Woman" by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy is a novel. Louise Harris leads a comfortable, predictable life as a well-bred English woman until her engagement to Luke de Mountford is threatened by an unexpected rival for his uncle's fortune.
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No! No! she was not going to gush!—Not even though there was nothing in the room at this moment to stand up afterward before her as dumb witness to a moment's possible weakness. Less than nothing in fact: space might have spoken and recalled that moment . . . infinite nothingness might at some future time have brought back the memory of it . . . but these dumb, impassive objects! . . . the fountain pen between her fingers! The dull, uninteresting hotel furniture covered in red velvet—an uninviting red that repelled dreaminess and peace! The ormolu clock which had ceased long ago to mark the passage of time, wearied—as it no doubt was, poor thing—by the monotonous burden of a bronze Psyche gazing on her shiny brown charms, in an utterly blank and unreflective bronze mirror, while obviously bemoaning the fracture of one of her smooth bronze thighs! Indeed Louisa might well have given way to that overmastering feeling of excitement before all these things. They would neither see nor hear. They would never deride, for they could never remember.
But a wood fire crackled on the small hearth . . . and . . . and those citron-coloured carnations were favourite flowers of his . . . and his picture did stand on the top of that ugly little Louis Philippe bureau . . . No! No! it would never do to gush, for these things would see . . . and, though they might not remember, they would remind.
Contents
- 01Chapter I Which Tells of a Very Commonplace Incident
- 02Chapter II Once More the Obvious
- 03Chapter III and Now Almost Like a Dream
- 04Chapter IV Nothing Really Tangible
- 05Chapter V Just an Obvious Duty
- 06Chapter VI Just a Disagreeable Old Man
- 07Chapter VII the Part Played by a Five-Pound Note
- 08Chapter VIII and Thus the Shadow Descended
- 09Chapter IX Which Tells of the Inevitable Result
- 10Chapter X Life Must Go on Just the Same
- 11Chapter XI and There Are Social Duties to Perform
- 12Chapter XII Shall a Man Escape His Fate?
- 13Chapter XIII They Have No Heart
- 14Chapter XIV the Tale Had to Be Told
- 15Chapter XV and Many Must Be Questioned
- 16Chapter XVI and the Puppets Danced
- 17Chapter XVII and What of the Secret?
- 18Chapter XVIII It Would Not Do, You Know
- 19Chapter XIX Not All About It
- 20Chapter XX and That's the Truth
- 21Chapter XXI Have Another Cigar
- 22Chapter XXII Then the Miracle Was Wrought
- 23Chapter XXIII Why All This Mystery?
- 24Chapter XXIV a Herd of Cackling Geese
- 25Chapter XXV the Fog Was Dense, I Couldn't Rightly See
- 26Chapter XXVI the Next Witness Please
- 27Chapter XXVII and People Went Out to Luncheon
- 28Chapter XXVIII Which Tells of an Unexpected Turn of Events
- 29Chapter XXIX the World Is So Large
- 30Chapter XXX and Then Every One Went Home
- 31Chapter XXXI and There Are People Who Do Not Care
- 32Chapter XXXII a Man Must Act as He Thinks Best
- 33Chapter XXXIII If You Would Only Let Yourself Go
- 34Chapter XXXIV Which Speaks Only of Farewells
- 35Chapter XXXV Which Tells of Pictures in the Fire
- 36Chapter XXXVI People Don't Do That Sort of Thing
- 37Chapter XXXVII It Is One Human Life Against the Other
- 38Chapter XXXVIII the Hand of Death Was on Him Too
- 39Chapter XXXIX a Mere Woman Fighting for the Thing She Loved
- 40Chapter XL and Thus Her Hour Had Come
- 41Chapter XLI Which Tells of the Contents of the Note Book
- 42Chapter XLII Which Tells Once More of Commonplace Incidents
About this edition
- Author
- Baroness Emmuska Orczy
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 284 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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