Dorothy Eden

1915 tavasza. A dúsgazdag Clemency Jervis hajóra száll New Yorkban, hogy a Lusitania fedélzetén átszelje az óceánt. Alig várja, hogy megérkezzen angol vőlegényéhez, Lord Hugo Hazzardhoz. De az ír partoktól néhány mérföldre a németek megtorpedózzák a luxus óceánjárót. A...

1915 tavasza. A dúsgazdag Clemency Jervis hajóra száll New Yorkban, hogy a Lusitania fedélzetén átszelje az óceánt. Alig várja, hogy megérkezzen angol vőlegényéhez, Lord Hugo Hazzardhoz. De az ír partoktól néhány mérföldre a németek megtorpedózzák a luxus óceánjárót. A...

IL izzie Willoughby and Alice Partridge had had a conference at breakfast.When the ship in which they had traveled from England had docked at Capetown, they had both received letters, Lizzie from her brother Evelyn, who said that because of the imminence of war with the Boers he had enlisted in the...

CHAPTER 1The somber Swedish countryside tipped beneath the wings of the plane. There were endless spruce forests lighted at intervals by autumn-tinted birches, outcrops of rocks like bare bones, small, dark red houses that looked as if they had been dropped haphazardly into the forest.It was too...

Chapter One WHILE waiting in the old house in Copenhagen, Det Gamle Huus, as the Danes would caU it, with a fire crackling on the wide hearth and a gale sweeping up the Sound so that flying spume clouded the windows, I decided to write my autobiography. It was the only way to make what had...

CHAPTER ONEs/ARAH SHIVERED and drew her cloak 'more closely about her. The summerhouse had broken panes of glass in the windows, and the wind blew through in a cold stream. It was rapidly growing dark. Because the trees were leafless, it was possible to see the house. Already lights were blooming...

Meine liebe Lydia, Du mußt es einrichten, daß Du sofort heimkommst, denn Aurora hat geschrieben und uns mitgeteilt, daß sie heiraten wird und zur Hochzeit nach Hause kommt. Ich bin so entzückt darüber, daß ich kaum denken kann. Es gibt so viel zu tun. Aber ist das nicht einfach himmlisch...