There are a few moments in the book that might have made it worth while if they had been in any way explored. "The mosquitoes made merry over her, biting her firm, round arms." "She rested her head against the table upon her bare arm." ".in a neglige which left her arms almost wholly bare." "She thrust a bare, white arm from the curtain which shielded her open door."
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"One would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender." And what is this writer's problem with sleeves!? You'll have to quickly skim through so many details about how beautiful or how ugly every character is and your patience will not be rewarded.Īrms arms arms. I am so so sorry you prioritized disobeying your parents over picking someone you were remotely sexually attracted to as your husband. Oh she made the silly mistake of marrying someone she never loved. She could never end up worse off than the people she orders around in almost every chapter of the book. She is rich, privileged and she has pretty much every freedom in the world thanks to a trust fund. "The quadroon sat for hours before Edna's palette, patient as a savage" The Creole woman does not take any chances which may be avoided of imperiling her health." "A little black girl sat on the floor, and with her hands worked the treadle of the machine. "There was with her a feeling of having descended in the social scale, with a corresponding sense of having risen in the spiritual." This while the following was still ringing in my ears: How the spoilt brat envies the "quadroons" and black servants who wait on her hand and foot! Hand and foot! I can't but look at this with modern eyes, sorry about that.
But this is just a love story! How was I tricked into reading it!? "Not over burdened with depth of thought" as she herself put it. Bland and empty version of a certain famous Russian story that I won't name because spoilers.
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