Beyond The Rocks
READING AGE 16+
A Love Story.
(1906)
This novel of torrid love was made into a film in 1922 starring Rudolph Valentino.
Josiah Brown's valet, Mr. Toplington, who knew the world, had engaged rooms for the happy couple at the Grand Hotel. "We'll go to the Ritz on our way back," he decided, "but at first, in case there's scenes and tears, it's better to be a number than a name." Mademoiselle Henriette, the freshly engaged French maid, quite agreed with him. The Grand, she said, was "plus convenable pour une lune de Miel--" Lune de Miel!--Chapter 1
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It was eighteen months after this before they met again--Hector and
Theodora; and now it was May, and the flowers bloomed and the birds
sang, and all the world was young and fair--only Morella Winmarleigh was
growing into a bitter old maid.
At twenty-eight people might have taken her for a matron of ten years
older.……
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