Warwick Deeping
The White Gate
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Constance Brent, after a girlhood largely spent in wandering about from place to place in the wake of her mother, finds herself, when the story opens, settled for the time being, in the midst of a little community filled with cultured and cultivated English people. Constance meets Richard Skelton, a man of modest fortune, who has come down to the country side to work on an invention that has long pos sessed his mind. He falls in love with her, but his own slender fortune and the thought that she may consider him elderly—he is some ten years older than she—makes him hesitate to begin his suit until the sudden death of Mrs. Brent, who dies from an overdose of chloral following a drunken spree, leaves the girl doubly helpless and alone. To escape the unpleas antness following the inquest, Constance and Richard are married at once and leave for the south of France, where, in the pleasant sunshine, Skelton learns of the great success of his invention. The White Gate is a well-written story of contemporary English country life. Nearly all the figures that people the story are life-like and likable. There is an atmosphere of wholesome ness and sanity about the whole hook. The author never preaches and is never dull.
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