Word: vervier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Madame Vervier was an exquisite person. Her salon in Paris, her garden at Cannes, her sunny cottage on the cliffs of Brittany were filled with other exquisite persons- savants, artists, connoisseurs of life. Madame Vervier was a powerful person, important to all who knew her, all important to more than one. If she left her husband for a lover and then had other loves, that was courageous as well as reckless. If she forfeited her position in le monde, that was her affair. Madame Vervier lived true to her lights; and they were clear, honest lights...
...terms of the divorce. Tradition, strongest in the outcast, dictated innocence for a jeune fille; ultimately a husband, un foyer. For jungle life outside society's pale, however free and beautiful, had its fierce dangers, its pain. A mother seeks to spare her daughter these-and Madame Vervier was a devoted mother...
Then Captain Owen was killed. To pay a debt of hospitality and to hoard more memories of him, his family asked Madame Vervier to let them have Alix for the Winter. To keep Alix innocent and to put her in the way of a safe marriage, Madame Vervier was more than willing...
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