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Years before a woman had made a dangerous gamble and sent her husband away to the woman he had been flirting with. He returned to her and, when her daughter defies her over the company she is keeping, she gambles again.
A wealthy woman watches her relatives with some amusement. She is delighted when her favourite nephew marries a shy, modest girl but, when his sister reveals the girl was an artist's model, the marriage seems doomed.
The story of Mademoiselle Aisse, who was purchased in Constantinople in 1698 at the age of four. She was taken to Paris where she became famous for her beauty and was admired in literary circles for her writings, particularly her letters.
Listeningi"I heard one plead for forgetting",Ethel Davies,
single work poetry
(p. 16)
Untitled,single work review — Review of
Songs of Sun and ShadowD. L. Waraker,
1928selected work poetry ;
(p. 24)
Section: Let's Talk About Books
Untitled,Franziska,
single work review — Review of
The Wild Oats of HanKatharine Susannah Prichard,
1926single work novel ;
(p. 24, 41)
Section: Let's Talk About Books