By W. Somerset Maugham
Set in England and Hong Kong within the Twenties, The Painted Veil is the tale of the attractive yet love-starved Kitty Fane. while her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the guts of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her adolescence and the small yet potent society she fought so challenging to realize in Hong Kong, she is pressured through her awakening sense of right and wrong to re-evaluate her lifestyles and how to love.
The Painted Veil is a fantastically written confirmation of the human capability to develop, to alter, and to forgive.
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He belched again. "Food always does this to me," he explained, "when I eat late. I have to be careful about supper if I am entertaining a little friend. " "You'd better go to sleep. " Charlot, leaning against the washstand, watched Carosse with dull distaste--watched not only Carosse--a mirror on the wardrobe door reflected both of their images; two middle-aged ruined men discussing a young girl. Never before had he been so aware of his age. "Do you know," Carosse said, "I'm half regretting that I'm leaving here.
The shallow eyes flickered disapproval: the man only liked his intimates--the payers, Charlot thought--to call him by his name. "You don't remember me, Jules," Charlot said. The man became uneasy: perhaps some tone of voice echoed in his ear. The times were confusing: some customers had disappeared altogether, others who had been in hiding had returned changed by imprisonment, and others who had not been in hiding it was now in the interests of his business to discourage. " The American began to hit loudly on the table with a coin.
Charlot, leaning against the washstand, watched Carosse with dull distaste--watched not only Carosse--a mirror on the wardrobe door reflected both of their images; two middle-aged ruined men discussing a young girl. Never before had he been so aware of his age. "Do you know," Carosse said, "I'm half regretting that I'm leaving here. I believe I could compete with you--even as Jean-Louis Chavel. You haven't any dash, my dear fellow. " "Why ever not? You've nothing against me. " He yawned and stretched.