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Gertrude, blackmailed by Egidio, a neighbor (acquaintance of l'Innominato and Gertrude's lover), persuades Lucia to run an errand which will take her outside the convent for a short while. In the street Lucia is seized and bundled into a coach. After a nightmarish journey, Lucia arrives at the castle of the Unnamed, where she is locked in a ...
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle is a 1939 American biographical musical comedy film directed by H.C. Potter. The film stars Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, and Walter Brennan. The film is based on the stories My Husband and My Memories of Vernon Castle, by Irene Castle.
Anna is the wife of Alphonsus (1) and mother of Alphonsus (2). She accidentally kills her husband. Frederic – passionate, handsome and elegant. Frederic is the younger brother of Alphonsus (1) and Anna’s rumoured lover. Lauretta – the beautiful wife of Alphonsus (2), and the daughter of Count Byroff. She is also the object of Theodore’s ...
1 Plot summary. 2 References. Toggle the table of contents ... Mine is a novel written by ... The novel tells the story of Laura Clayborne, a successful journalist ...
Be Mine begins in February 2020 with Frank aged seventy-four and temporarily living in Rochester, Minnesota while caring for his forty-seven-year-old son Paul, who is a patient at the Mayo Clinic for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Frank has recently scattered the ashes of his first wife (and Paul's mother) Ann, and been left by his second wife ...
Steven says that she can decide whether to tell the mercenaries. The mercenaries wish to leave the castle, fearing the plague, but Martin persuades them to stay. At the next meal, Agnes watches as they drink infected water. As Martin begins to drink, she slaps the cup from his hand, just as the mercenaries begin to show signs of the plague.
The novel is presented as the memoir of one Ephraim Mackellar, steward of the Durrisdeer estate in Scotland. The novel opens in 1745, the year of the Jacobite rising.When Bonnie Prince Charlie raises the banner of the Stuarts, the Durie family—the Laird of Durrisdeer, his older son James Durie (the Master of Ballantrae) and his younger son Henry Durie—decide on a common strategy: one son ...
The book opens in the autumn of 1558, just after the death of Mary I of England, and bells are heralding the fact that Mary's half-sister, Elizabeth, is now queen.The book is told from four main perspectives: Elizabeth I's; William Cecil's, the queen's main advisor; Robert Dudley, the queen's favourite; and Amy Robsart's, who is Robert Dudley's wife.