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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

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The narrative is told from muliple viewpoints, and the action centers on Philip Mark's proposal to Katherine Trenchard. Katherine is the prop of the family and especially the guardian of her mother's wishes. Her mother is the Queen Victoria of the clan. Katherine's family is shocked that she plans to marry an outsider against her mother's wishes. Her younger siblings, Millie and Henry, look on her as an old maid, because Katie isn't pretty like Millie and it was believed she would stay home to run the family. But Millie, who has been to school in France, is more liberal than the rest of the family and is intrigued by Katherine's anticipated break with the family. Henry, a sloppy adolescent, both likes Philip and is threatened by his masculinity.Philip has a secret: he had a mistress in Russia and a child who died. But he doesn't tell Katherine right away, and other members of the family gradually find out. The conflict is among Mrs Trenchard, Katherine, and Philip. Mrs. Trenchard hopes to break Philip, so that Katherine will live at home even if she does marry.The novel begins and ends with the consciousness of Henry, the younger brother. He lives for reading novels, because he has a year off before attending Cambridge. He is idle, shabby, dreamy and wants to write, but can't finish anything. (Maybe a young Walpole?) He spends most of the time in the drawing room with a green mirror that reflects everything beautifully. The green mirror symbolism is very ineffective.Read this complete famous novel for further interesting story....