The Ball at Versailles by Danielle Steel EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Danielle Steel
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Jane Fairbanks Alexander saw the creamy white envelope sitting on the
silver tray on the table in the entrance hall, where the part-time housekeeper
who came three times a week had put it. Gloria was Irish and had worked
for them daily when Jane’s daughter Amelia was still in school, but now
that she was in college, Jane didn’t need Gloria as often and she had another
part-time job the other two days of the week. She bought the groceries she
knew Jane liked, did the laundry, and cleaned the apartment.
Amelia only
came home now for the occasional weekend. It was her freshman year at
Barnard. The apartment seemed strangely quiet without her. It was small,
neat, and elegant, and had two bedrooms, in a prewar building in Manhattan
on Fifth Avenue and Seventy-sixth Street, with a doorman, which made
Jane feel safe. On the days that Gloria was there, it was nice for Jane to
come home to a clean, tidy apartment, with her laundry neatly folded on her
bed. Having an orderly home was some slight compensation for the fact that
Amelia wasn’t there anymore. She was uptown in the dorm. Barnard was
the female sister school of Columbia University.
Amelia was loving her freshman year. She was an English literature
major, which made sense since Jane was the second-in-command of a
venerable publishing house in the city. Amelia’s father had been in
publishing too, and Amelia had clear goals. She wanted to go to law school
when she graduated from Barnard, and hoped to get into Columbia, which
had been one of the first law schools to accept women. For the past nine
years, Jane had brought Amelia up on her own.
She had been nine years old
when her father, Alfred, died. She had never known him as her mother had.
Jane had warm memories of him before the war, when he was still a whole
person, before he had gone to war and everything had changed.
Jane had met him when she was a junior at Vassar. He had been getting a
master’s in English at Yale. Once they met at a deb ball in New York, he
had courted her for a year and a half and traveled from New Haven to visit
her in Poughkeepsie as often as he was able.
They got engaged during her
senior year, and married as soon as she graduated, in 1939. Alfred was
twenty-four then, and Jane was twenty-two. He had an entry-level job in
publishing at G. P. Putnam’s, and he had a bright future ahead of him. He
had started as an editorial assistant and was rapidly promoted to junior
editor. He loved his job and looked forward to being a senior editor or even
editor in chief one day.
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