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For readers who enjoy drawing rooms, ballrooms and grand journeys, who like a love story with a scheming rival, and who relish witty talk about money, fashion and gossip.
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Gossip can build a cage around a good man. A Heart-Song of To-day, by Annie G. Savigny, is a Victorian society novel set in London, Surrey, Paris and Rome between June 1877 and Twelfth Night 1878. Vaura Vernon, a bright young woman, and Captain Lionel Trevalyon, a charming soldier who has promised his dying father never to marry, are drawn together. Kate Tompkins, a wealthy American widow, loves him and marries Vaura's uncle to get near him. She uses a whispered tale of a hidden wife to keep him free. Fashionable society watches it all.
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- 1A widow plots at midnightFree
- 2Haughton Hall and a girl's past
- 3The picnic and the wedding
- 4Vaura returns and the rival rises
- 5Paris: a ball, a promise and a difficulty
- 6The hunt for Fanny and the road south
- 7Rome, a parting and a promise
- 8Money, masks and gossip
- 9A story told with a wink
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A widow plots at midnight
The novel opens at midnight in a boudoir in Eaton Square. Kate Tompkins, an American widow, tells Captain Trevalyon that Colonel Haughton has proposed. She hopes Trevalyon will beg her to refuse. Instead he laughs and gives his blessing.
Behind a curtain, Major Delrose, her old lover, has been listening. From him Kate learns that club gossip gives Trevalyon a secret wife, tied to an old affair with a woman named Fanny Clarmont. Kate sees a weapon. If people think him a bigamist, no good family will give him a bride.
Next morning she accepts the Colonel. She loves Trevalyon, and she wants the Haughton name and its old Surrey house. Marriage will give her both, and keep Vaura away from the man she loves.
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What is A Heart-Song of To-day about?
It follows Captain Lionel Trevalyon and Vaura Vernon as they fall in love, while a wealthy widow, Kate Tompkins, and a jealous Major, George Delrose, spread a rumour that Trevalyon has a secret wife. The story moves from London to Paris, Rome and Surrey.
Who is the hidden wife in the story?
The hidden wife is a rumour, based on an old scandal about a woman named Fanny Clarmont. Society gossips, newspapers repeat it, and Trevalyon sets out to find the real woman and the truth behind it.
When is A Heart-Song of To-day set?
The story runs from June 1877 to Twelfth Night 1878. It moves through the London season, the Paris exhibition year, a winter in Rome, and a Christmas ball at Haughton Hall in Surrey, and it mentions real events and public figures.
What does the title mean?
The title points to a love song for the present age. The book sets a deep, sympathetic love between Vaura and Trevalyon against the busy, gold-minded fashionable world of its day, which it calls an age of butterflies.
Is it an easy book to read?
It is told in a chatty, friendly voice with short scenes, lively dialogue, letters and plenty of jokes. The plot is clear, with a heroine, a hero, rival schemers and a ball that builds to a big night.