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Fire-Side Scenes - Softcover

Mrs. Ross

 
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Synopsis

Fire-Side Scenes by Mrs. Ross. Fire-Side Scenes is a collection of diary-like prose and linked tales that blend romance, moral reflection, and social critique. The excerpt presents a narrator whose From My Journal entries chart a life of intellectual and religious contemplation, weaving love, marriage, and personal obligation with meditations on beauty, memory, and mortality. Interwoven are dramatic sketches such as 'The Military Ball,' 'The Paria,' and 'The Country Curate' that explore courtship, faith, and Christian virtue across settings from Devonshire to colonial India. The work traces the friction between worldly ambition and spiritual conviction, the transformation effected by sincere belief, and the enduring pull of domestic affection. Through vivid character sketches—Camilla Hastings, Hartley Aubertin, Amy Blair, and others—the text interrogates duty, sympathy, and the moral challenges of human love, offering a refined portrait of a nineteenth-century sensibility.

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