[Franklin Kane by Anne Douglas Sedgwick]@TWC D-Link bookFranklin Kane CHAPTER III 5/15
She was of that vast army of rootless Europeanised Americans, who may almost be said to belong to a celibate order, so little does the question of matrimony and family life affect their existence.
For a younger, more frivolous type, Europe might have a merely matrimonial significance; but to Miss Robinson, and to thousands of her kind, it meant an escape from displeasing circumstance and a preoccupation almost monastic with the abstract and the aesthetic.
To Althea it had never meant merely that.
Her own people in America were fastidious and exclusive; from choice, they considered, but, in reality, partly from necessity; they had never been rich enough or fashionable enough to be exposed to the temptation of great European alliances. Althea would have scorned such ambitions as basely vulgar; she had never thought of Europe as an arena for social triumphs; but it had assuredly been coloured for her with the colour of romance.
It was in Europe, rather than in America, that she expected to find, if ever, her ardent, compelling wooer.
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