Sanctuary Sanctuary

Publisher Description

Long after Mr Orme had left the topic, Kate remained lost in its contemplation. She had begun to perceive that the fair surface of life was honeycombed by a vast system of moral sewage. Every respectable household had its special arrangements for the private disposal of family scandals; it was only among the reckless and improvident that such hygienic precautions were neglected. Who was she to pass judgment on the merits of such a system? The social health must be preserved: the means devised were the result of long experience and the collective instinct of self-preservation. She had meant to tell her father that evening that her marriage had been put off, but she now abstained from doing so, not from any doubt of Mr. Orme’s acquiescence — he could always be made to feel the force of conventional scruples — but because the whole question sank into insignificance beside the larger issue that his words had raised.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1903
January 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
110
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SELLER
Public Domain
SIZE
82.2
KB

Customer Reviews

BungalowBride ,

Somewhat sanctimonious but so well written

Quite the morality play from Ms. Wharton, and her language is skimmably florid at times. But she's such a fantastic writer and so wonderful at nuance and detail that Sanctuary is worth the read for a free book.

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