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THE
VICISSITUDES
OF
EVANGELINE
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Copyright in America.
Evangeline.
THE
VICISSITUDES
OF
EVANGELINE
By ELINOR GLYN
AUTHOR OF
“THE VISITS OF ELIZABETH”
AND “THE REFLECTIONS OF
AMBROSINE”
LONDON
DUCKWORTH & CO.
3, HENRIETTA STREET
COVENT GARDEN, W.C.
MDCCCCV
CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.
TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.
TO
THE WOMEN WITH RED HAIR
THE BEGINNING OF
EVANGELINE’S JOURNAL
THE BEGINNING OF
EVANGELINE’S JOURNAL
Branches Park,
November 3rd, 1904.
I wonder so much if it is amusing to be anadventuress, because that is evidently what Ishall become now. I read in a book all aboutit; it is being nice-looking and having nothingto live on, and getting a pleasant time out oflife—and I intend to do that! I have certainlynothing to live on, for one cannot count £300a year—and I am extremely pretty, and I knowit quite well, and how to do my hair, and puton my hats, and those things, so, of course, Iam an adventuress! I was not intended forthis rôle—in fact Mrs. Carruthers adopted meon purpose to leave me her fortune, as at thattime she had quarrelled with her heir, who wasbound to get the place. Then she was so inconsequent[4]as not to make a proper will—thusit is that this creature gets everything, and Inothing!
I am twenty, and up to the week before last,when Mrs. Carruthers got ill, and died in oneday, I had had a fairly decent time at oddmoments when she was in a good temper.
There is no use pretending even when peopleare dead, if one is writing down one’s realthoughts. I detested Mrs. Carruthers most ofthe time. A person whom it was impossible toplease. She had no idea of justice, or of anythingbut her own comfort, and what amountof pleasure other people could contribute to herday!
How she came to do anything for me