Word: carlota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reader's credulity. One cannot help wondering at the sudden transformation of me elf-child Nancy, untaught, uncontrolled, into a strangely self-restrained girl, capable of extraordinary devotion to a uninspiring priest. Why did not her perception of and longing for the nobler love render the beautiful and gifted Carlota, so comprehending of herself and others, impervious to a love far from satisfying? And how could Philip, the object of the love, once awake to human passion, return so inexorably to a calm monastic prison? Ever conscious of "The Cloister and the Hearth" with its profound tragedy of two ever...