| | 1 | Author: | Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Conflict  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Four years at Wellesley; two years about equally
divided among Paris, Dresden and Florence. And now
Jane Hastings was at home again. At home in the
unchanged house — spacious, old-fashioned — looking down
from its steeply sloping lawns and terraced gardens
upon the sooty, smoky activities of Remsen City,
looking out upon a charming panorama of hills and valleys
in the heart of South Central Indiana. Six years of
striving in the East and abroad to satisfy the restless
energy she inherited from her father; and here she was,
as restless as ever — yet with everything done that a
woman could do in the way of an active career. She
looked back upon her years of elaborate preparation;
she looked forward upon — nothing. That is, nothing
but marriage — dropping her name, dropping her
personality, disappearing in the personality of another.
She had never seen a man for whom she would make
such a sacrifice; she did not believe that such a man
existed. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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