"Langs lijnen van geleidelijkheid" by Louis Couperus is a novel published in 1900. The story follows twenty-three-year-old Cornélie de Retz van Loo from The Haag, recently divorced and traveling through Italy to clear her mind. During her stay at a Roman pension, she meets Duco van der Staal, a Dutch amateur painter her own age, and gradually falls in love with him. Meanwhile, their hostess harbors secret intentions to convert her guests to Catholicism, adding complexity to their surroundings. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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