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The story of a very charming girl who, in order to escape the rather
dreary and sordid surroundings of her youth, marries a man who
fascinates her by his difference from the people whom she already
knows. He, however, is a shallow and selfish man, who has very little
appreciation of his wife’s need for self-expression; it turns out that
he is even worse than this, however, and that he has been married
before to a woman considerably below him, who, when he had believed
her dead, turns up and drives him from England. The heroine, then a
wife, yet not a wife, turns to her art as a painter for that “Rose of
Joy” which had been denied her as a child or as a married woman. Miss
Findlater has many of the qualities of a Jane Austen, in that she can
find matters of the deepest interest, and make them seem interesting,
too, in all the affairs of a country neighborhood.
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