Meadowsweet

Meadowsweet is a romance novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. Orczy was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright. Excerpt: «One of the many fallacies invented by learned people with a view to confusing the unlearned is the saying that „Nature never makes a mistake.“ Now no one on earth makes more mistakes than Dame Nature makes up aloft, or wherever else she may dwell. And I will tell you one of the greatest mistakes that she ever did make, and that was that she put a true mother's heart inside the ample chest of Aunt Caroline and then wholly omitted – or forgot – to give her children of her own to love, to cosset, and to worry out of all patience.»