The White Peacock

📘 The White Peacock is a first-person story, narrated by a sensitive young man named Cyril Beardsall. He tells the story, set in the English countryside, of himself, his sister, Lettie, and their two young friends George Saxton and Leslie Tempest. Most of the action concerns Cyril's friend George Saxton, who comes from a farming family. George loves Lettie, the proud white peacock of the title. Alter flirting with George for years, Lettie marries Leslie Tempest, a wealthy young man. The disappointed George, after some success as a horsetrader, as a man of property, and as a dabbler in politics, falls at last into a condition of physical and spiritual decay.