Résumé
Résumé de Le mari d’Addie, ou Des nuages au soleil
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You will love this if you enjoy Victorian romance, family comedy, and stories of class and money. It also welcomes readers drawn to unspoken feelings, wounded pride, and love that grows through everyday gestures.
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What would you give to get your family home back? Addie Lefroy, a penniless young woman in Victorian England, is offered Nutsgrove, the manor house her family has lost, if she will marry the man who bought it. Addie's Husband, by Mrs. Gordon Smythies, is a story of pride, money and unspoken love, told with humor and ache. You meet a proud family, a self-made husband and a marriage that begins with a bargain. Let us begin with the day the Lefroys lose everything.
Dans ce résumé
- 1Five proud children lose their ancestral homeFree
- 2A fall from a tree leads home
- 3Tom Armstrong offers marriage and a promise
- 4The family tells Addie to swallow her doubts
- 5A quiet wedding and a secret vow
- 6A honeymoon breaks on an overheard cry
- 7Comfort returns, and warmth does not
- 8Pauline and Robert rise on borrowed money
- 9What the story says about pride and love
Point clé 1 sur 9
Five proud children lose their ancestral home
The story opens on a sleepy October noon at Nutsgrove, a Tudor manor house that the Lefroy family has held for three hundred years. Five children run wild there. They are Robert, Pauline, Addie, Hal and little Lottie, nicknamed Goggles. Their father, Colonel Robert Lefroy, has vanished abroad and left a mountain of debt.
Their mother's sister, Aunt Jo, feeds them rabbit four days a week and weeps over the butcher's bill. She warns them that the creditors may seize the house with an hour's notice. Eight months later it happens. The furniture is sold at auction, and the house is bought by Tom Armstrong, a self-made maker of vitriol and fertilizer from the town of Kelvick.
The family faces separation. Pauline goes to rich Aunt Selina as her companion, Robert expects to sail on a ship carrying salt, and Addie plans to be a nursery governess in Birmingham. Robert sneers at the new owner as a vulgar upstart. You can see how their pride is all that the Lefroys have left.
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Questions about Le mari d’Addie, ou Des nuages au soleil
What is Addie's Husband about?
It follows Addie Lefroy, a poor gentlewoman, who marries a self-made manufacturer, Tom Armstrong, so her family can regain their lost home. The story shows how pride, money and misunderstanding shape their marriage.
Who wrote Addie's Husband?
Mrs. Gordon Smythies wrote it. The story explores manners, money worries and class feeling.
What does Through Clouds to Sunshine mean?
Clouds and sunshine run through the story as images of sorrow and hope. They reflect Addie's changing feelings about her home, her marriage and the life she wants.
Is Addie's Husband an easy book to read?
It reads easily because of its lively talk, short scenes and gentle humor. Lottie's blunt questions, Pauline's sharp remarks and the cup of tea that begins everything keep the story moving.
What is the main message of the book?
The book suggests that worth lies in character, not birth. It also shows how silence and pride can hide love, and how people must speak plainly to understand each other.