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Asphodel

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Asphodel

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

English· 19:50:57· 34 chapters
Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of almost 17, she finds an opportunity to forget for a while... Forget that her father, the renowned Sir Vernon Lawford, does not love her. To forget that, for some reason, nobody talks about her mother who traveled to the South of France and never returned. She can be a butcher's daughter from Oxford Street, she can control her friend's actions, she can fancy that she is in love with a man who does not even reveal his name. She returns home and faces the challenge of earning her father's love and carve a respectable place beside her beloved older half-sister. But what would she do when her past folly catch up with her? Would she find love and acceptance at last? - Summary by Stav Nisser.
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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    I. ' And she was fair as is the rose in May '

    28:37
  2. Chapter 2

    II. ' And this was gladly in the Eventide '

    26:12
  3. Chapter 3

    III. ' And Volatile, as ay was his usage '

    42:50
  4. Chapter 4

    IV. ' CURTEIS she was, discrete, AND DEBONAIRE '

    36:02
  5. Chapter 5

    V. ' Thou lovest me, that wot I wel certain '

    40:56
  6. Chapter 6

    VI. ' Love maketh all to gone misway '

    43:52
  7. Chapter 7

    VII. ' His Herte bathed in a Bath of Blisse '

    37:18
  8. Chapter 8

    VIII. ' God wote that worldly Joy is sone ago '

    35:31
  9. Chapter 9

    IX. ' Of Colour pale and dead was she '

    28:41
  10. Chapter 10

    X. ' And spending Silver had he right ynow '

    30:17
  11. Chapter 11

    XI. ' Yeve me my Deth, or that I have a Shame '

    34:22
  12. Chapter 12

    XII. ' And to the Dinner faste they hem spedde '

    36:20
  13. Chapter 13

    XIII ' After my Might ful fayne wold I you plese '

    33:24
  14. Chapter 14

    XIV. ' Love is a Thing, as any Spirit, free '

    34:21
  15. Chapter 15

    XV. ' Not for your Linage, ne for your Richesse '

    23:28
  16. Chapter 16

    XVI. ' No Man may alway have Prosperitee '

    32:34
  17. Chapter 17

    XVII. ' And in my Herte wondren I began '

    40:35
  18. Chapter 18

    XVIII. ' Love wol not be constreined by Maistrie '

    38:56
  19. Chapter 19

    XIX. ' I deme that hire herte was ful of wo '

    35:15
  20. Chapter 20

    XX. ' Al sodenly she swapt adown to Ground '

    32:37
  21. Chapter 21

    XXI. ' For Wele or Wo, for Carole, or for Daunce '

    36:33
  22. Chapter 22

    XXII. ' For I wol gladly yelden hire my Place '

    29:17
  23. Chapter 23

    XXIII. ' And COME agen, be it by Day or Night '

    26:31
  24. Chapter 24

    XXIV. ' Ay fleth the Time, it wol no Man abide '

    33:17
  25. Chapter 25

    XXV. ' But I wot best wher wringeth me my Sho '

    37:41
  26. Chapter 26

    XXVI. ' Forbid A Love and it is ten Times so wode '

    25:34
  27. Chapter 27

    XXVII. ' I may not don as any ploughman may'

    27:39
  28. Chapter 28

    XXVIII. ' Love is not old, as whan that it is new '

    42:46
  29. Chapter 29

    XXIX. ' I meane well, by God that sit above '

    45:29
  30. Chapter 30

    XXX. ' Ther was no Wight, to whom she durste plain '

    49:51
  31. Chapter 31

    XXXI. ' I wolde live in Pees, if that I might '

    30:28
  32. Chapter 32

    XXXII. ' For Love and not for Hate thou must be ded '

    33:42
  33. Chapter 33

    XXXIII. ' Is there no Grace ? Is there no Remedie ?'

    56:52
  34. Chapter 34

    XXXIV. ' Sens Love hath brought us to this piteous End '

    23:09