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...glasses, upturned chairs, errant garments, and every sort of unattractive human debris." The revelers emerge the worse for wear. Gerard Hernshaw, the acknowledged leader of this elite band, has learned by phone that his ill father has died overnight. Gerard's oldest and closest friends, Jenkin Riderhood and Duncan Cambus, are drunk and disoriented. Although Duncan seldom needs a reason for such a condition, in the aftermath of this midsummer night's madness he can offer a good one. The dance has exposed his wife Jean to another meeting with a classmate, the Scottish-born David Crimond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Midsummer Night's Madness | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

...Cambus...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: No Snappy Titles | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

...sped the chase through Cambus-moor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOMETHING TO ADORE; OR, THE HARE AND HOUNDS CHASE. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

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