The Valley of Decision

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Edith Wharton. The Valley of Decision

The Valley of Decision

Table of Contents

BOOK I. THE OLD ORDER

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.4

1.5

1.6

1.7

1.8

1.9

BOOK II. THE NEW LIGHT

2.1

2.2

2.3

2.4

2.5

2.6

2.7

2.8

MIRANDOLINA'S STORY

2.9

2.10

2.11

2.12

2.13

2.14

2.15

BOOK III. THE CHOICE

3.1

3.2

3.3

3.4

3.5

3.6

3.7

BOOK IV. THE REWARD

4.1

4.2

4.3

4.4

4.5

4.6

4.7

4.8

4.9

4.10

4.11

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Edith Wharton

Published by Good Press, 2021

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"I'm the servant of your illustrious mother's servants; the abatino of the waiting-women. I write their love-letters, do you see, cavaliere, I carry their rubbish to the pawnbroker's when their sweethearts have bled them of their savings; I clean the birdcages and feed the monkeys, and do the steward's accounts when he's drunk, and sleep on a bench in the portico and steal my food from the pantry...and my father very likely goes in velvet and carries a sword at his side."

The boy's voice had grown shrill, and his eyes blazed like an owl's in the dark. Odo would have given the world to be back in his corner, but he was ashamed to betray his lack of heart; and to give himself courage he asked haughtily: "And what is your name, boy?"

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