# False Dawn (The 'Forties)

Author: Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937; Caswell, Edward C., 1879-1963 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61297

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=False+Dawn+%28The+%27Forties%29+Wharton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Hay, verbena and mignonette scented the languid July day. Large strawberries, crimsoning through sprigs of mint, floated in a bowl of pale yellow cup on the verandah table: an old Georgian bowl, with complex reflections on polygonal flanks, engraved with the Raycie arms between lions’ heads. Now and again the gentlemen, warned by a menacing hum, slapped their cheeks, their brows or their bald crowns; but they did so as furtively as possible, for Mr. Halston Raycie, on whose verandah they sat, would not admit that there were mosquitoes at High Point.

## Chapters

- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/false-dawn-the-forties-61297/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/false-dawn-the-forties-61297/chapters/1/index.md)