Leer The Gay Cockade online gratis (en inglés)

"The Gay Cockade" by Temple Bailey is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers around Jimmie Harding, a spirited and youthful character who works within a dull government office but aspires to become a playwright. Through Jimmie's romance with Elise, we explore themes of ambition, the impact of relationships on personal growth, and the cost of success as he seeks to express his creativity amidst the constraints of a conventional life. At the start of the narrative, Jimmie's exuberance revitalizes his weary colleagues who are entrenched in monotony. His creative ambitions are supported by Elise, who pushes him toward success and a new life at his inherited Virginia home, but there are hints of conflict as Jimmie's artistic spirit begins to clash with the practicalities of his new domestic life. As Jimmie writes, it becomes evident that Elise's strong personality may overshadow Jimmie's individuality, leading to a tension between his emerging success and the sacrific

Así empieza

A woman, who under sentence of death could plan immediately for a trip
to the circus, might seem at first thought incredibly light-minded.

You had, however, to know Anne Dunbar and the ten years of her married
life to understand. Her husband was fifteen years her senior, and he had
few illusions. He had fallen in love with Anne because of a certain gay
youth in her which had endured throughout the days of a dreadful
operation and a slow convalescence. He had been her surgeon, and,
propped up in bed, Anne's gray eyes had shone upon him, the red-gold
curls of her cropped hair had given her a look of almost boyish beauty,
and this note of boyishness had been emphasized by the straight
slenderness of the figure outlined beneath the white covers.

Anne had married Ridgeley Dunbar because she loved him. And love to Anne
had been all fire and flame and spirit. It did not take her long to
learn that her husband looked upon love and life as matters of flesh and
blood--and bones. By degrees his materialism imposed itself upon Anne.
She admired Ridgeley immensely. She worshiped, in fact, the wonder of
his day's work. He healed the sick, he cured the halt and blind, and he
scoffed at Anne's superstitions--"I can match every one of your Bible
miracles. There's nothing to it, my dear. Death is death and life is
life--so make the most of it."

Anne tried to make the most of it. But she found it difficult. In the
first place her husband was a very busy man. He seemed to be perfectly
happy with his cutting people up, and his medical books, and the
articles which he wrote about the intricate clockwork inside of us which
ticks off the hours from birth to death. Now and then he went out to the
theatre with his wife or to dine with friends. But, as a rule, she went
alone. She had a limousi

… sigue leyendo gratis en el lector inmersivo de Mirrow.