![]() ![]() ![]() It is all very surprising, and it is a remarkable stroke of art that makes the younger sister, Helen, approach the hard masters of the world first. And Margaret, who is twenty years his junior, loves him she does not develop as the romantic convention would have her, but according to profound instincts and fundamental good sense. He has not the least comprehension of what we may call his wife's spiritual portion he does bad things, such as filching public lands and trading unscrupulously, which she abhors and there is even conjured up, to his momentary confusion, a battered mistress who proves him to have been unfaithful to his first wife, a woman after Margaret's own heart. Henry is not at all in the front of civilisation, but rather at the base of it he is elderly, prosaic, competent, and everything that romance is not. But Margaret marries Henry Wilcox, and the unwary reader will be revolted by it, as Helen was. ![]() So it is with the two sisters Margaret and Helen, who know the best, or at least a pretty good, London, and manage, it seems, to be thoroughly alive in it. The facts of the story are sometimes very difficult to reconcile with the people, but we are to remember that "all over the world men and women are worrying because they cannot develop as they are supposed to develop." 343, 6s.), is a novel of high quality written with what appears to be a feminine brilliance of perception. ![]()
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