Promise (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Promise When Henriette Lemaure married Tames Edgell, whom she had met by chance at a watering-place in Brittany, opinion as to her reasons was divided. Those who knew her best said that she did it to annoy her father. Those rather less acquainted with her said that it was nothing but love of effect, a thing to which all the Lemaures were prone. Those who knew her least of all, the casual public who looked on at the proceedings of the pair by the sea at St. Aviel, gave the simpler reason that she had fallen in love with Jem; and it is probable, as not unusually happens, that absent theorists were wrong, and ignorant onlookers were right. As for the reasons of her falling in love, they were, for the theorists, further to seek. Jem belonged to a nation with whom, Henriette had frequently declared to everybody, she had no patience. He was more than twice her age, for she was still under twenty when he met her first. He was poor and quite undistinguished, for his work lay on the railway which was to open up that portion of the coast, and draw throngs of the bourgeois and the English to its summer resorts. He loved her - but then that was not unheard of in a man who had access to a week of Mlle. Lemaure´s holiday society. Most of the men of her party were her adorers, and it was understood by those who knew, that she was half-betrothed to Raymond Savigny, the rising scientist, whom her father wished her to marry. It may have been that Jem´s solemnity and solidity enticed her to his conquest: for he left her in doubt as to the state of his feelings even when she caused him to suffer most; and to the minute of his offering himself, she was not sure if he really cared for her at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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