Evelyn de Morgan, Cadmus and Harmonia
An impoverished but virtuous young lady attracts the love of a lord.
Here is another novel by Paul (see Novel 025): ambivalent characters find themselves entangled in a subtle and apparently intractable conflict—until the author, out of time, or patience, or paper, suddenly resolves it by sending two characters to heaven and a third to South America.
“The persons have much consistency and reality about them; spirit is equable and well sustained throughout.” Spectator, June 28, 1856
It is “written in an unpretending, pleasing style.” Saturday Review, July 26, 1856
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