The Transgression of Andrew Vane: A Novel

The Transgression of Andrew Vane: A Novel

For months past, she had felt that she was weakening, that the crescent wretchedness of five long yearsan uninterrupted descent from level to level, on each of which the thorns of disillusion caught at, and tore from her, some shred of hope or self-respecthad done its work at last. Her courage and her faith, inherited, the one from the mental, the other from the moral, vigour of a rigid and uncompromising Puritan ancestry, were slipping from her. What the end was to be, she did not dare to ask; but it lay there ahead, grim and ominous, gradually taking form, through the mist of the immediate future. Its very suggestion of divergence from all that was familiar to her, of being even a degree more monstrous than what she had already suffered, sickened and appalled her, who had never known a dread of mere death, but drew back with unspeakable fear before the looming of this unknown, ultimate degradation. John Vane had wooed his wife with the easy confidence born of adequate position, adequate means,[2] and more than adequate ability. Four years of Harvard had taught him to believe life in the little Western town which had been his birthplace, to be, for a man of literary bent, a practical impossibility; and when he stepped easily from the halls of his Alma Mater into the offices of a Boston magazine, it was a practical renunciation of his early environment, and an expression of his resolve to follow in the actual as well as the metaphorical footprints of some of the greatest figures in American literature. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 38020
Author: Carryl, Guy Wetmore
Release Date: Nov 15, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English