Word: marian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sickle-shaped scar across his face, a "down-weeping, blank eye," a twisted mouth that distorts his whole face, and (Author Hartley hints) some internal wound that has left him a man in appearance only. "But you mustn't say [you are sorry] to him, or to Marian either," the younger son of the house tells Leo, his house guest. "Mama wouldn't like it . . . Mama wants Marian to marry...
...Lady-Killer. Little Leo has no idea what Marian thinks about marrying Lord Trimingham. He only knows that she is his boyish ideal of a goddess and that he worships her beauty almost as much as Lord Trimingham's viscountcy. To fetch and carry for Maid Marian is heaven to Leo-especially when she asks him to carry a secret letter from her to Ted Burgess and rewards him with "an enchanting smile...
...finds Farmer Burgess to be a fine, strapping man, but just a low-class fellow for all that; yet Leo starts asking questions about Ted because any man who has a mysterious bond with Marian is worth investigating. But he gets only short, veiled answers. "Mr. Burgess is a bit of a lad," says the coachman. "He's a bit of a lady-killer, but there's no harm in that," says Lord Trimingham casually...
...flecks of gold. There are, too, bright-colored court scenes in which a magician conjures up events to come; there is a high-mannered court practicing the flatteries and-deceits that Ondine cries out against; in Mel Ferrer, there is a handsome knight for her to love; in Marian Seldes, a finely haughty rival whose hopes she dashes...
...MARIAN B. DAVISON State College...