A painter who makes love to women as a pastime meets an eighteen-year-old vicar's stepdaughter sketching in the Kentish woods, and when she takes his idle advice to study art in Paris he finds the game harder to keep up than he expected. Nesbit is remembered for her children's books; this is one of the adult novels she wrote alongside them, and it is sharper about money than about love.
Five Children and It
The Story of the Amulet : Four Children and the Psammead in the Ancient World
The Story of the Treasure Seekers : Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune
The Phoenix and the Carpet : A Bird Hatched on the Nursery Hearth
The Railway Children : Three Suburban Children Beside a Country Line
The Railway Children : Three Suburban Children Beside a Country Line
The Book of Dragons : Tales of Dragons and the Children Who Faced Them
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
John Charrington's Wedding
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The Story of the Treasure Seekers