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The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Arnim
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Title: The Enchanted April
Author: Elizabeth von Arnim
Release Date: July 29, 2005 [eBook #16389] [Date last updated: August 27, 2006]
Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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THE ENCHANTED APRIL
by
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM
It began in a Woman's Club in London on a February afternoon--an uncomfortable club, and a miserable afternoon--when Mrs. Wilkins, who had come down from Hampstead to shop and had lunched at her club, took up The Times from the table in the smoking-room, and running her listless eye down the Agony Column saw this:
To Those Who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine. Small mediaeval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be Let furnished for the month of April. Necessary servants remain. Z, Box 1000, The Times.
That was its conception; yet, as in the case of many another, the conceiver was unaware of it at the moment.
So entirely unaware was Mrs. Wilkins that her April for that year had then and there been settled for her that she dropped the newspaper with a gesture that was both irritated and resigned, and went over to the window and stared drearily out at the dripping street. next >