![]() Although Catherine is ready and waiting at the appointed hour, Morris never shows up. Shocked by her father's cruel disdain, Catherine plans to elope with Morris that night, and reveals to her fiancé her father's threat. When Catherine insists on marrying Morris despite his threats to disinherit her, Austin angrily tells his daughter that because she is homely and dull, her only attraction is her money, and that her only talent is her neat embroidery work. After a few months, Austin realizes that Catherine still clings to her love, and they return to New York. ![]() While Austin and Catherine are away, Morris visits Lavinia at the Sloper home, and settles in to a luxurious life style. To distract her, he convinces Catherine to accompany him to Europe for six months, and Morris vows to wait for her. Austin is outraged that his naïve daughter is being duped and is deaf to Catherine's earnest pleas that she is in love, forbidding the marriage. Montgomery's reticence to condemn her wastrel brother. Austin's suspicion that Morris is after Catherine's substantial inheritance is confirmed, despite Mrs. Instead of having her suitor request her father's permission as convention dictates, Catherine announces her engagement to Austin, who then sends for Morris' sister, Mrs. Catherine accepts without hesitation, despite Morris' warning that her father may think he is a mercenary because he is unemployed, uneducated and frittered away his inheritance in Paris. One night, Lavinia ignores Austin's request that she chaperone them, and when she leaves Morris and Catherine alone together, he proposes. Morris becomes a frequent visitor at the Sloper home during the ensuing week, and Austin is reservedly pleased that someone is taking an interest in his spinster daughter. Although she is clumsy, Morris is deferential and full of flattery, and before the evening's end, he asks to see her again. Arthur's handsome and charming cousin Morris surprises Catherine by asking her to dance. That night at a party, Austin's other sister, Elizabeth Almond, and her husband Jefferson, announce the engagement of their daughter Marian to Arthur Townsend, an eligible bachelor. Rather than using it to take calculated and wise steps forward in her personal and professional lives, she uses her wealth in ridiculous ways that sometimes don't even add to the story (A walk-in closet in her office room with all the latest designs?) Further, I was initially rooting for her as the underdog, however, she quickly became a bully (The amount of wine that she overturns on people's heads.In the mid-1800's, in New York's Washington Square, wealthy widowed physician Austin Sloper bemoans the fact that although his daughter Catherine has had superior schooling and training, she lacks the refined qualities of her beautiful mother, and is "an entirely mediocre creature." Austin consequently asks his sister, widow Lavinia Penniman, to encourage his homely daughter to become more social. ![]() Once I got over the blunt dialogue, I was interested in Nicole's story and was intrigued to see how she would react. I got hooked in to reading this book via a social media post. These kinds of stories are purely money making scams that put me off the reading apps. It's also 1869 chapters long! The writing is so weird, some characters are full names (Eric ferguson) then others will be first names (kai) first oldest brother, second youngest brother, young master etc etc, no one talks like this. It starts out like it's going to be a second chance romance but, as of chapter 178 Nicole still hates Eric and won't give him the time of day. Nicole's family just let her act like a spoilt little princess. Eric was very close with H and his family, you'd think her lies would have been found out way sooner and it even says in part of the story that H told Eric to take care of Wendy when he died. Wendy met H for 3 days and somehow conned all his friends into believing she was his soul mate. There's absolutely no back story to explain why Nicole wanted to Marry Eric so badly in the first place. The heroine (nicole) is awful, she becomes a really vindictive, unlikeable person who holds grudges forever and gets revenge by destroying family businesses when it's the daughter of said family that was rude to her. There seems to be no end in sight (literally another 780 chapters), and not one thing I would hope, or expect, to happen has.Ībsolutely terrible. The heroine is a villain in my eyes, as she can do the most evil things. The hero of the story seems to start off as this strong character who was obtuse to the abuse his wife was dealt by his family and friends, and himself for ignoring her then he becomes this overly sensitive and desperate man. I would say it should have been broken into separate books.
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