Rosalie Vanderpoel, the daughter of an American multimillionaire marries an impoverished English baronet and goes to live in England. She all but loses contact with her family in America. Years later her younger sister Bettina, beautiful, intelligent and extremely rich, goes to England to find what has happened to her sister. She finds Rosalie shabby and dispirited, cowed by her husband's ill treatment. Bettina sets about to rectify matters. She meets Lord Mount Dunstan, an impoverished earl, who lives nearby and they fall in love, but he cannot speak because it would look as if he were after her money...
This is a romance but it is also about the rejuvenating effects of Americans and American money on a somewhat decadent English aristocracy. (Summary by Tabithat)
Chapters
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Chapter 01 The Weaving of the Shuttle Read by tabithat 27:21
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Chapter 02 A Lack of Perception Read by tabithat 16:43
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Chapter 03 Young Lady Anstruthers Read by tabithat 38:55
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Chapter 04 A Mistake of the Postboy's Read by tabithat 35:44
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Chapter 05 On Both Sides of the Atlantic Read by tabithat 39:09
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Chapter 06 An Unfair Endowment Read by tabithat 18:51
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Chapter 07 On Board the Meridiana Read by tabithat 18:02
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Chapter 08 The Second Class Passenger Read by tabithat 19:30
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Chapter 09 Lady Jane Grey Read by tabithat 16:19
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Chapter 10 Is Lady Anstruthers at Home? Read by tabithat 16:54
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Chapter 11 I Thought You Had All Forgotten Read by tabithat 11:56
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Chapter 12 Ughtred Read by tabithat 21:45
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Chapter 13 One of the New York Dresses Read by tabithat 16:07
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Chapter 14 In the Gardens Read by tabithat 9:20
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Chapter 15 The First Man Read by tabithat 32:47
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Chapter 16 The Particular Incident Read by tabithat 40:39
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Chapter 17 Townlinson and Sheppard Read by tabithat 28:47
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Chapter 18 The Fifteenth Eart of Mount Dunstan Read by tabithat 30:46
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Chapter 19 Spring in Bond Street Read by tabithat 25:04
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Chapter 20 Things Occur in Stornham Village Read by tabithat 16:50
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Chapter 21 Kedgers Read by tabithat 12:32
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Chapter 22 One of Mr Vanderpoel's Letters Read by tabithat 23:49
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Chapter 23 Introducing G. Selden Read by tabithat 43:27
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Chapter 24 The Political Economy of Stornham Read by tabithat 21:21
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Chapter 25 We began to marry them my good fellow Read by tabithat 25:02
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Chapter 26 What it must be to you - just you Read by tabithat 21:57
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Chapter 27 Life Read by tabithat 20:07
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Chapter 28 Setting Them Thinking Read by tabithat 12:48
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Chapter 29 The Thread of G Selden Read by tabithat 10:56
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Chapter 30 A Return Read by tabithat 27:49
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Chapter 31 She Would Not Read by tabithat 17:37
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Chapter 32 A Great Ball Read by tabithat 39:12
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Chapter 33 For Lady Jane Read by tabithat 35:25
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Chapter 34 Red Godwyn Read by tabithat 19:13
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Chapter 35 The Tidal Wave Read by tabithat 20:11
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Chapter 36 By the Roadside Everywhere Read by tabithat 21:57
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Chapter 37 Closed Corridors Read by tabithat 21:06
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Chapter 38 At Shandy's Read by tabithat 45:29
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Chapter 39 On the Marshes Read by tabithat 21:16
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Chapter 40 Don't Go On with This Read by tabithat 20:35
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Chapter 41 She Would Do Something Read by tabithat 20:03
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Chapter 42 In the Ballroom Read by tabithat 16:09
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Chapter 43 His Chance Read by tabithat 18:49
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Chapter 44 A Footstep Read by tabithat 18:08
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Chapter 45 The Passing Bell Read by tabithat 25:22
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Chapter 46 Listening Read by tabithat 23:21
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Chapter 47 I have no word or look to remember Read by tabithat 17:25
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Chapter 48 The Moment Read by tabithat 48:34
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Chapter 49 At Stornham and at Broadmorlands Read by tabithat 23:16
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Chapter 50 The Primeval Thing Read by tabithat 13:04
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