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...last week, sat an aged woman, her chin bent low over her hollow chest, her hair in untidy wisps around her wrinkled face, her sharp black eyes lost in memory. She had no need to be dressed for company, for hardly anybody drops in to pay a call on Mamma Erato these days. They are too afraid. Her only friends are the rheumatic old cobbler just down the street and the kind, ugly butcher next door. Sometimes Mamma Erato slinks out of her room to make her way to the church and light a candle to St. Mary...
...joke, in early 19th Century England, to be the eldest daughter of a poor Yorkshire vicar. Not even for a girl as lively, as pretty, as independent, as good and as beautiful as Arabella Tallant. Naturally she wanted to marry none of her awkward provincial suitors, so Mamma hustled her off to her wealthy London godmother who undertook to find Bella a rich husband. When the coach broke down on the way, Bella sought shelter at the nearest house, which turned out to be the country home of Mr. Robert Beaumaris, the handsomest, the most polished, the most excitingly built...
...room they took was part of the apartment of Mamma Adele, who believed them when they told her they were married. Perhaps if they had gone to a more impersonal place, the original plan would have worked out better. But Adele's apartment was a home, redolent of strong emotions. In it lived Adele, a tough-faced old woman, "all leather and insomnia"; her husband Ugo, a gentle soul who felt in his bones the sufferings of his countrymen ; their son Antonio, an embittered ex-soldier who had welcomed the American soldiers but now hated them for their attentions...
...maid in the Monday family's home, Sara pitied the "hampered and hagged" master of the house, Matt Monday, who though in his 40s was still "like a child, and kept from his rights as a man" by "his good mamma and his older sister." When the timid Matt proposed, Sara accepted him. Then, aflame with youth and cocky in her new social position, she began to notice other...
...Paris schoolboy "fell convulsively sobbing into mamma's arms" and cried: "I'm not like other people . . . not like other people!" Andre Gide, at eleven, had found his career...