The Duke's Daughter and, The Fugitives vol. 1/3

The Duke's Daughter; and, The Fugitives; vol. 1/3

It is perhaps necessary to explain that the following story was published in serial form under the title of Lady Jane, but the subsequent use of a similar title for another work has suggested the expediency of a change of name. This was her character, universally acknowledged. She might not perhaps be so splendid a person as a duchess ought to be. She had never been beautiful, nor was she clever in the ordinary sense of the word; but she was in the full sense of the word a sensible woman. She had, there is no doubt, abundant need for this faculty in her progress through the world.{4} Hers had not been a holiday existence, notwithstanding her high position at the head of one of the proudest houses and noblest families in England. It is a sort of compensation to us for the grandeur of the great to believe that, after all, their wealth and their high position do them very little good. So we all like to believe. But after all, it is highly doubtful whether there is more content, as the moralists of the eighteenth century imagined, in a cottage than in a palace; and the palace has the best of it in so many other ways. The Duchess had met with many vexations in her life,{5} but no more than we all meet with, nor of a severer kind; and she had her coronet, and her finery, and her beautiful ducal houses, and the devotion of all that surrounded her, to the good. So while we have no occasion to be envious, we have none, on the other hand, to plume ourselves upon the advantages of humble position. Duchess or no duchess, however, this lady had sense, a precious gift. And she had need to have it, as the following narrative will show. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 63901
Author: Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)
Release Date: Nov 28, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English