The Mating of Lydia Mrs Humphry Ward 9781523769452 Books
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"Aye, it's a bit dampish," said Dixon, as he brought a couple more logs to replenish a fire that seemed to have no heart for burning. The absurd moderation of the statement irritated the person to whom it was addressed. "What I'm thinkin'"—said Mrs. Dixon, impatiently, as she moved to the window—"is that they'll mappen not get here at all! The watter'll be over t' road by Grier's mill. And yo' know varra well, it may be runnin' too fasst to get t' horses through—an' they'd be three pussons inside, an' luggage at top."
The Mating of Lydia Mrs Humphry Ward 9781523769452 Books
This was a good story but the ending was predictable. A beautiful girl but poor is courted by her very wealthy neighbor. She responds halfheartedly wanting only to be good friends. Then a stranger crosses her path and she is struck but the stranger is poor also. Much of the novel is concern over the conditions of the poor who are dependent on landowners for work, housing and healthcare. The master landowner in this case is very wealthy, mean and selfish even to his wife and daughter.He continues to build his wealth on investments in art and precious metals when all around him his estate is falling to ruin. All is here, the rich, the downtrodden and those with enough to get by.
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The Mating of Lydia Mrs Humphry Ward 9781523769452 Books Reviews
There's nothing like a truly evil character in a novel to get a reader's juices flowing, and in Edmund Melrose Mrs. Ward really created one. A miserly, dismal man, whose only interest in life is collecting art works, most of which he never even uncrates, he divorces his wife after she escapes (with their daughter Felicia) his cold, unfeeling ways with a valuable statuette and returns to Italy. Claude Faversham happens along by accident (literally) one day and is hired by Melrose as his land agent - after Melrose learns that Faversham owns rare jewels that he inherited. Faversham tries to help the tenants of the Melrose estate, but Melrose refuses to give any money to them. When Melrose later drowns, Faversham is thought to be his murderer.
All throughout these proceedings the love between Lydia Penfold and Faversham blossoms, in fits and starts, until, by a rather far-fetched coincidence, Faversham is proved innocent of Melrose's murder. Everything turns out perfectly at the end between Lydia and Faversham after he gives his inheritance to Felicia and the Melrose mansion becomes an art museum. That's the chief fault with the book Mrs. Ward, like a good puppet master, controls the circumstances of the story too carefully to make them seem natural. The first half of the novel is excellent, but the last half disappoints. Nothing Mrs. Ward wrote is totally worthless, but this briskly written novel is not among her very best.
I liked this book it caught my attition. Once I started reading couldn't put it down. Wish it was longer.
This was a good story but the ending was predictable. A beautiful girl but poor is courted by her very wealthy neighbor. She responds halfheartedly wanting only to be good friends. Then a stranger crosses her path and she is struck but the stranger is poor also. Much of the novel is concern over the conditions of the poor who are dependent on landowners for work, housing and healthcare. The master landowner in this case is very wealthy, mean and selfish even to his wife and daughter.
He continues to build his wealth on investments in art and precious metals when all around him his estate is falling to ruin. All is here, the rich, the downtrodden and those with enough to get by.
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