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A Bride of the Plains
Baroness Emmuska Orczy
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Sometimes also the young soldier having received his discharge, does not care to return to his native village: he has lost his taste for pigs and geese, for digging and sowing; he has had a glimpse of life and wants to see some more; the emigration agents at Budapest are active and persuasive. "America is a land of gold," they say; "no further trouble but to stoop and pick up the gold just where it lies."
And the lad listens and ponders. He will not go home, for he is afraid that his mother's tears will deter him from his purpose: he follows the advice of the emigration agent, expends his last fillér, sells his spare shirt and takes passage at Fiume on a big ship which conveys him to the land of riches.
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Beautiful descriptions, but the hero, Andor, and the heroine, Elsa, were just not likable. All my sympathies with the villain, Béla, and the villainess, Klara.
A Bride of the Plains by Emmuska Orczy is the story of Elsa, a Hungarian peasant around the turn of the century. Her true love is presumed dead, and she has been persuaded to marry a wealthy, loutish, churlish neighbor. Then she discovers that her beloved Andor is not really dead after all. Add in a
I was glad this wasn't the first of Orczy's books I'd read, as I'm not sure I'd have read any others after it! The descriptions of Hungary are beautiful, but they go on... and on... and on. I really did have to force myself more than once to plough through it. I didn't particularly like any of the c