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Set amid wartime Philadelphia, the narrative portrays fashionable salons where a French minister's social tact tempers partisan hostility. Scenes center on a financier's grand entertainments that gather conservative merchants, lawyers, clergy, and military officers alongside younger belles, producing layered exchanges about independence and aristocratic order. A newcomer of businesslike bearing provokes debate over republican rights and commercial interests while interacting with a charismatic general and his young wife. Social rituals—dinners, balls, flirtations, and private scheming—reveal competing visions for the emerging nation, exposing personal ambitions, political alliances, and the influence of society’s manners on public affairs.

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Title: Arnold's Tempter

Author: Benjamin F. Comfort

Release date: May 20, 2020 [eBook #62181]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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ARNOLD’S
TEMPTER

By
Benjamin F. Comfort

THE C. M. CLARK PUBLISHING CO.
Boston, Massachusetts
1908


Copyright, 1908
BY
The C. M. Clark Publishing Co.
Boston, Massachusetts
U. S. A.

All Rights Reserved


Dedicated to
My Wife
A. C. C.