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Intertwined lives of an upper-class household and its servants unfold through romantic entanglements, social ambition, and domestic incident. The narrative moves between country estates and town: a gentleman is pressed into riding a perilous racehorse, engagements and misunderstandings complicate relationships, and a maid’s discovery produces a pivotal turn. Balls, misplaced jewelry, letters, and intimate household talk reveal tensions between public reputation and private feeling. The story follows these tensions through comic and dramatic episodes toward reconciliations that resolve personal grievances and restore everyday order.

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Title: Proper pride

A novel. Volume 3 (of 3)

Author: B. M. Croker

Release date: December 30, 2023 [eBook #72550]

Language: English

Original publication: London: Tinsley Brothers, 1882

Credits: MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PROPER PRIDE ***

PROPER PRIDE.

A Novel.

Life may change, but it may fly not;
Hope may vanish, but can die not;
Truth be veiled, but still it burneth,
Love repulsed—but it returneth.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:
TINSLEY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE ST. STRAND.
1882.
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