Saturday, September 15, 2007

Awakened Heart, chapter 5

Half-way through The Awakened Heart! It doesn't seem possible.
I can't imagine a chapter of any Betts, ever, in which less happens. The chapter covers the first few days of Sophie's visit with Rijk. She meets his family and tours around the house and the village. By the end of the chapter, she's sure she'll marry him.
The best line of the chapter (as evidence of its dullness): Rijk 'fesses up that he's rich, but admits that "a good deal of my wealth is the result of no doubt ill gotten gains from my merchant ancestors" (p. 103).

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