Word: kailern
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...heroine is Baroness Milli von Kailern, 23, unmarried and disenchanted with life in the Socialist, poverty-stricken Vienna of 1926. When her love for stuffy Prince Wieland Traun is rebuffed, Milli despairingly gives herself to another young man, in what may well be the most tepidly described seduction in contemporary literature: "One day in their flat, when his mother was out for a couple of hours only, he began to undress me . . . That I was a virgin surprised...
...Kailern family mansion (the former palace of an archbishop) is overrun by a plague of sponging Croatian relatives; Milli's gentle father fitfully writes his futile memoirs; her dashing brother Karli spends his nights gambling, his days wooing nouveau riche heiresses. Milli drifts moodily through her days, hears people talking about a man named (she thinks) Albert Hitler, beats her head against the prison walls of faded gentility, and makes vague, hopelessly unrealistic plans to work in a hotel or a tourist agency. Rescue finally comes when an aunt who has married a U.S. millionaire sweeps into Vienna, vaguely...
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