Margaret Pedler

Name: A Dangerous Woman
Author: Margaret Pedler

A Dangerous Woman (1925)

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“A Dangerous Woman”, published in 1925, is a work by Margaret Pedler. It explores elements such as Dolores di Ravoglini, Toby and Peter.

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Margaret Pedler, A Dangerous Woman (1925)

“ An old Italian woman, her dark eyes bright and glancing like a robin's, peered at him scrutinisingly. Could he see the signora? She shook her head doubtfully. Peter smiled at her—that lovable, half whimsical smile of his which so few women could resist—and the old serving woman melted. Yes, it was true—the signora had finished her siesta. Perhaps she would receive the signoré inglese. The name? A swift expression of surprise crossed her face as Peter gave his name. ”

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Margaret Pedler, A Dangerous Woman (1925)

“ A quarter of a century is a big slice out of life; but to Peter, looking back along the vista of the years, it did not seem as long as that since the time when he and that other Dolores—Dolores Daventry—had played at love together throughout the whole of a golden summer by the Cornish sea. ”

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Margaret Pedler, A Dangerous Woman (1925)

“ What I'm thinking”—his eyes, fixed on Toby's face, narrowed suddenly—“is that Dolores di Ravoglini is not a fit woman to put in your mother's place. You think that, too, don't you?”
The boy's face whitened under the tan.
“That's not fair,” he cried in a stifled voice.
Toby had risen. He stood still, clenching and unclenching his hands. Then: “I'm going to marry her,” he said jerkily. “I can't throw her over. You would have a man treat a woman like that?—and such a woman!—she is wonderful—she's been wonderful to me. You have never seen her. ”

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Margaret Pedler, A Dangerous Woman (1925)

“ To put it concisely, young Toby's in the toils of Dolores di Ravoglini, an extremely beautiful person who lives in a gorgeous villa on the Bay of Naples. An adventuress, of course, but unique in her own line. You don't see her anywhere in public. In fact, current gossip has it that she never goes outside the grounds of her villa. But her toils have caught, one at a time, more good fellows than one cares to think of, and some of them never get over it. ”

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Margaret Pedler, A Dangerous Woman (1925)

“ But he or any other man would serve, provided he can give her what she wants.”
“Any other man!” The words were like a searchlight flashed across the dark confusion of Peter's troubled thoughts, and in an instant he realized that here was the one possible way by which Toby could be saved. He wondered curiously why this solution of the problem had never occurred to him. It was a terrible way out, involving the complete surrender of his own life. But it meant the saving of Toby's.
He stated his proposition very simply to Dolores. ”

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Margaret Pedler, A Dangerous Woman (1925)

“ Subsequently, when his engagement to Barbara Grey was announced, Dolores had been one of the first to offer her felicitations—with an insouciant gaiety which had effectually disposed of the idea that her heart had been any more seriously involved than Peter's own, and during the years of perfect happiness which succeeded his marriage he had practically forgotten all about her. ”

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Margaret Pedler, A Dangerous Woman (1925)

“ Her eyes flashed dangerously.
“There are men who do not break engagements, and as for Dolores di Ravoglini—men do not desire to play her false.”
There was mockery in the dark eyes—“If Toby himself asks me to release him, I will—I promise. But on no other condition.”
She had named the one contingency which could never arise. If Toby's freedom depended on his asking for it himself, he would never get it.
There was nothing for it but to accept defeat. Peter left the villa, walking very slowly, with bent head. ”

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Margaret Pedler, A Dangerous Woman (1925)

“ Italy is altogether too elegant for the likes of me, and if the spars of the old tub I've chartered for the purpose hold together, I'm proposing to spend the next few months cruising about in the South Seas. ”

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Margaret Pedler, A Dangerous Woman (1925)

“ I, personally, know of a rising young barrister who since his acquaintance with the fair Dolores, will rise no more, and equally well of a certain highly-placed personage who was only hurried home by his suite in time to save a European scandal. ”

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