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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Such dependence had developed between Juliet and Anthony Steele, quite without the volition or even the consciousness of either. She found his sustained consideration infinitely more satisfactory than any show of passion, which would have repelled her as well as frightened her reserve. He in return found her even devotion much more appealing than a less unselfish ardour that would have made unreasonable inroads upon his time and work. So that each of them appeared entirely content with the other, and with the unusually satisfactory evolution of their marriage. This morning Juliet watched the erect, grey figure out of sight; then she turned away from the window and glanced appreciatively about the white morning room. It was perfect, as only wonderfully simple things can be perfect; and yet there was about it a suggestion of reticence hardly consistent with its simplicity. The soft mellow tints spoke, quietly insistent of a personality made out of many subtle tones into a peculiarly elemental whole. Juliet never thought about herself enough to wonder if the room she loved was like her, yet as her eyes wandered critically about its few details she seemed satisfied with the product of her preferences. Anthony had added his tribute in the shape of a big bowl of white roses, always on the little black tabouret by the escritoire. He never forgot. His offerings came as regularly as those of a lover, in fact they were just too regular to be a lover's. But to Juliet Steele they were entirely satisfactory. The personal element which controls the average married woman's contentment in her husband, had never been present in her scheme of life, and Anthony's. In place of it (of what the old-fashioned call true love), they had been mutually ready to use the cement of congeniality; and this...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217462556 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217462553 |
| Weight | 1.27 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.88 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 394 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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