I don't know what Harrison means when he writes of Chaddie's "mature resolve as she begins an independent life on the Prairies." The married couple only become closer as the novel progresses, and the two are increasingly reliant on a slowly growing cast of characters. Under-secretaryships, which really belonged to Oppenheim romances, and put him in the shoe business in some nice New England town! Tell her that I intended to take Theobald out of Gustav - which made me quite calmly and solemnly So pointedly of the danger of international marriages that I felt sure she was trying to shoo meĪway from my handsome and kingly Theobald The world like an oyster-on-the-half-shell, and spoke Shallow landau of hers, where she looked for all Then Theobald's aunt, the baroness, called on me, The while to the Hotel de L'Athenee, the long boxesĭuly piled up in tiers, like coffins at the morgue. That he'd been sending flowers and chocolates all That he thought it was code) and later on found I sent a cable to Theobald Gustav (so condensed Made a pauper, Chaddie's first action is to dismiss her maid the second is to send word to her German aristocrat fiancé: She is of the moneyed class – that is until Monte Carlo, where Chaddie receives a cable informing that the "Chilean revolution" has wiped out her nitrate mine concessions. Its writer, Chaddie, begins by describing a voyage from Corfu to Palermo and then on to the Riviera. The Prairie Wife takes the form of a series of entries, written over the course of more than a year to someone named Matilda Anne.
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