The Tall Villa (1919) (e-book) (used book) | Lucas Malet | bookbook.eu

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Thanks to abounding vitality - which goes so far as to engender and maintain success to his good looks and to a certain dazzlingly plausible way he had with him, Morris Copley, though less well-bred and well-connected, eclipsed and dominated his wife. Tacitly she consented to be passive, ineffectual. If her baby had lived all might have been different, for the young man possessed a large bump of philoprogenitiveness. As mother of his children, Frances would have scored. But without a baby in her arms, let alone a well peopled nursery, she became a poor second though he was very fairly faithful and genu inely fond of her - to the excitements of busi ness, to the sport and passion of making money which, let it in all fairness be added, he held her free very lavishly to spend.

But financial failure once confessed, not impossible bankruptcy staring the two thus sternly in the face, the positions were in great measure reversed. Frances Copley held the cards; and, with an initiative and lucidity startling to herself, she proceeded to play them. Therefore she said.

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