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Macaulay Rose. The Lee Shore
The Lee Shore
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
A HEREDITARY BEQUEST
CHAPTER II
THE CHOICE OF A CAREER
CHAPTER III
THE HOPES
CHAPTER IV
THE COMPLETE SHOPPER
CHAPTER V
THE SPLENDID MORNING
CHAPTER VI
HILARY, PEGGY, AND HER BOARDERS
CHAPTER VII
DIANA, ACTÆON, AND LORD EVELYN
CHAPTER VIII
PETER UNDERSTANDS
CHAPTER IX
THE FAT IN THE FIRE
CHAPTER X
THE LOSS OF A PROFESSION
CHAPTER XI
THE LOSS OF AN IDEA
CHAPTER XII
THE LOSS OF A GOBLET AND OTHER THINGS
CHAPTER XIII
THE LOSS OF THE SINGLE STATE
CHAPTER XIV
PETER, RHODA, AND LUCY
CHAPTER XV
THE LOSS OF A WIFE
CHAPTER XVI
A LONG WAY
CHAPTER XVII
QUARRELS IN THE RAIN
CHAPTER XVIII
THE BREAKING-POINT
CHAPTER XIX
THE NEW LIFE
CHAPTER XX
THE LAST LOSS
CHAPTER XXI
ON THE SHORE
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Rose Macaulay
Published by Good Press, 2019
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"I edit a magazine," he said, and Peter perceived that he was both proud and ashamed of the fact. "At least I am going to. A monthly publication for the entertainment and edification of the Englishman in Venice. Lord Evelyn Urquhart is financing it. You know he has taken up his residence in Venice? A pleasant crank. Venice is his latest craze. He buys glass. And, indeed, most other things. He shops all day. It's a mania. When he was young I believe he had a very fine taste. It's dulled now—a fearful life, as they say. Well, his last fancy is to run a magazine, and I'm to edit it. It's to be called 'The Gem.' 'Gemm' Adriatica,' you know, and all that; besides, it's more or less appropriate to the contents. It's to be largely concerned with what Lord Evelyn calls 'charming things.' Things the visiting Englishman likes to hear about, you know. It aims at being the Complete Tourist's Guide. I have to get hold of people who'll write articles on the Duomo mosaics, and the galleries and churches and palaces and so on, and glass and lace and anything else that occurs to them, in a way calculated to appeal to the cultivated British resident or visitor. I detest the breed, I needn't say. Pampered hotel Philistines pretending to culture and profaning the sanctuaries, Ruskin in hand. Ruskin. Really, you know. … Well, anyhow, my mission in life for the present is to minister to their insatiable appetite for rhapsodising over what they feel it incumbent on them to admire."
"Rather fascinating," Peter said. It was a pity that Hilary always so disliked any work he had to do. Work—a terrific, insatiable god, demanding its hideous human sacrifices from the dawn of the world till twilight—so Hilary saw it. The idea of being horrible, all the concrete details into which it was translated were horrible too.
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