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Audrey

Mary Johnston

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Going over to them, she knelt and began to pluck them. "If any danger threatened me," she began, in her clear, low voice, "I believe that you would step between me and it, though at the peril of your life. I believe that you take some pleasure in what you are pleased to style my beauty, some pride in a mind that you have largely formed. If I died early, it would grieve you for a little while. I call you my friend."

"I would be called your lover," he said.

She laid her fan upon the ground, heaped it with violets, and turned again to her reaping. "How might that be," she asked, "when you do not love me? I knew that you would marry me. What do the French call it,—mariage de convenance?"

Her voice was even, and her head was bent so that he could not see her face. In the pause that followed her words treetop whispered to treetop, but the sunshine lay very still and bright upon the road and upon the flowers by the wayside.

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Community Reviews

It was OK except for the last few pages of the story, which so ticked me off. The ending just ruined the whole thing for me.

Audrey is written in a style particular to the turn of the twentieth century. In order to "get into it", you have to adjust to the pace and effusiveness of historical romance of that period. It is a genuine adjustment, but once it is made, the rewards are rich. Put yourself in the position of a read