Chapter 4
Caroline's introduction and her weariness with being beautiful; her desire simply to be left alone.
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From The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Lady Caroline 'Scrap' Dester is a society beauty exhausted by being relentlessly 'grabbed at' by men and admirers. She seeks San Salvatore to escape adoration.
Chapter 8
Caroline reflecting on how being beautiful is a curse — one of the novel's sharpest passages on the burden of female beauty.
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