The Golden Calf is a novel written by Mary E. Braddon. The story revolves around a young woman named Isabel Gilbert who is forced to marry a wealthy but unscrupulous man named George Sheldon. Isabel soon realizes that her marriage is a mistake and that her husband is involved in shady business deals. She becomes friends with a young artist named Valentine Jerningham, who is also involved with Sheldon's business affairs. The two fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the fact that Isabel is married. As the ...
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The Golden Calf is a novel written by Mary E. Braddon. The story revolves around a young woman named Isabel Gilbert who is forced to marry a wealthy but unscrupulous man named George Sheldon. Isabel soon realizes that her marriage is a mistake and that her husband is involved in shady business deals. She becomes friends with a young artist named Valentine Jerningham, who is also involved with Sheldon's business affairs. The two fall in love, but their relationship is complicated by the fact that Isabel is married. As the story unfolds, Isabel and Valentine become embroiled in a web of deceit, betrayal, and greed. The novel explores themes of love, marriage, morality, and the corrupting influence of money. The Golden Calf is a gripping tale of love and intrigue set against the backdrop of Victorian England.And now came for that household at Wimperfield a period of agonising trouble and fear. The boy's illness developed into an acute attack of rheumatic fever, and for three dreadful days and nights his life trembled in the balance. Not once did Ida enter her husband's room during that awful period of fear. She could not steel herself to look upon the man whose sin, or whose folly, had brought this evil on her beloved one. 'My murdered boy, ' she kept repeating to herself. Even on her knees, when she tried to pray, humbly and meekly appealing to the Fountain of mercy and grace--even then, while she knelt with bowed head and folded hands, those awful words flashed into her mind. Her murdered boy.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work
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