Frank Danby

Baccarat Frank Danby

A novel by the author of Pigs in Clover. Frank Danby was the pseudonym of Julia Davis Frankau (1863-1916). She was the author of many popular novels. Excerpt: Marriage had been a contract with John Courtney. It will be seen how he kept, not only to the letter, but to the unvowed spirit of it. He and Julie had been married nearly nine years, yet she was still well under thirty, and, although she had borne him two children, her figure, svelte and curved and graceful, was almost a girl's figure; her face, with its low brow and dark lashes, its sparkling eyes, and scarlet lips, its piquant dimpling and mobility, was but a girl's face. All these years she had been in John's safe keeping, and she was still fresh and sweet as the day she gave herself to him.