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The Spoils of Poynton
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1897
- Pages
- Pages 260
Waterbath is a house of such relentless ugliness that a woman of taste cannot walk its rooms without feeling ill, and Mrs Gereth has spent her marriage building the opposite of it. Poynton holds the finest things in England, gathered piece by piece over decades, and on her husband's death the law hands every one of them to her son, who means to marry the daughter of Waterbath.
there are few things more soundless than a deep devotion
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