Word: anticlea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...These he disposes as skilfully as of yore. The plot lurks excitingly -how young David Loring came from Virginia to inherit his father's English estates and was tangled, at the peril of his life in the cunning of his Uncle Nevil, diabolical usurper. Murder creeps by night; Anticlea Loring (foundling, not blood-cousin to David) has flaming red hair and a high temper; wedding bells peal over the bad uncle's grave. The minor characters do not quite catch their Dickensian accent, but Farnol is Farnol through the thickest of thick and the gayest of thin...
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