Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first section is devoted principally to Talleyrand's life with the beguiling Mme de Flahaut, and-as if that were not enough-the discussion is carried on even unto the uttermost generation, and full details are given of the picturesque and irregular lives of Charles de Flahaut, the son of that union, and of the Duc de Morny...
...justice, it must be admitted that this life contains some extraordinarily interesting sidelights on history. Isolated episodes such as the death of Louis XV, the meeting of the Estates General, the assemblage on the Champs de Mars; the detention of Spanish Princes, and the Council of Erfurt, are told with a wealth of colorful detail not to be found in the more authentic histories. The story of Talleyrand's two years in American from 1792 to 1794, after he had been successively exiled from France and from England, with accounts of his visiting to various Revolutionary celebrities in Philadelphia, Albany...
SHOULD true love or the sense of duty evoked through compassion and pity determine the all too-important decision in one's life, that of marriage? This is the question upon which the theme of "Conflict" is based, and in it Mrs. Prouty has evolved a psychological problem, the solution of which she has presented too insufficiently and inconclusively; in fact, she has given no solution at all. That is left to the reader. That the girl loved through sympathy and later regretted is not, however, left uncertain. Around this lies the theme of the story-a swift moving story...
From a sense of duty in repayment for his devout adoration of her, Sheilah marries Felix, and at that moment begins her life of compunction. It terminates only when Felix, aware of his own inadequacy of supplying her with the love she deserves, purposely involves himself in an accident that causes his death...
After her marriage, Sheilah sinks into veritable oblivion, and because her husband is so lacking in the attributes of a gentleman, welcomes it. Her days of work and regret are somewhat mitigated later by the entrance into her life of Roger Dallinger, a gentleman of instinctively fine qualities to whom in their clandestine relationship she gives the spiritual love her husband never inspired...