Monsieur Maurice

""Monsieur Maurice"" is a novel written by Amelia B. Edwards. The story follows the life of a Frenchman named Maurice who is a talented artist and musician. He falls in love with a beautiful Englishwoman named Violet, but their love is forbidden due to social and cultural differences. Maurice must navigate through the challenges of their relationship while also dealing with his own personal struggles. The novel explores themes of love, class, and identity. It is a captivating story that takes the reader on a journey through France and England in the 19th century.My first words on waking, were to ask if he had yet come. All day long I was waiting, and watching, and listening for him, starting up at every sound, and continually running to the window. Would he be young and handsome? Or would he be old, and white-haired, and world-forgotten, like some of those Bastille prisoners I had heard my father speak of? Would his chains rattle when he walked about? I asked myself these questions, and answered them as my childish imagination prompted, a hundred times a day; and still he came not.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.