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...subject in 1821, and in 1832 he made drunken soldiers dig graves, as a warning of where they were headed. He lost the Irish vote because he had executed some Irish deserters in Mexico, and he lost the anti-Catholic vote because one of his daughters was a nun...
...snares to a distant convent. Meanwhile, heartbroken Renzo, breathing smoke and vengeance, flees to Milan. No sooner is he there than he is caught up in a bread riot and turned in to the police by an informer. Lucia, poor thing, falls into the power of an evil nun, who hands the girl over to the nun's own lover, who in turn delivers her to a master criminal known only as the Unnamed...
...full-length portrait of a weak, well-meaning man of the world, truckling where he has to, lording it where he can, glad to do a kindness if you'll wait till after supper, parish-wise and heaven-foolish all day long. The wicked nun is not simply wicked, but a believable wretch who got that way partly through her own vanity, partly because she was hideously tricked by her father into a life she had no call for. Manzoni's novel has sizable literary faults, e.g., the narrative is clogged, especially toward the end, with long passages...
...Sussex house, King's Land, shows the slimness of the owner's purse. The furnishings of the old house have been neither changed nor moved since the death of Belloc's wife in 1914. His children and grandchildren (one of whom is a monk, another a nun) are often there with him, but Chesterton is dead and few other friends survive to fulfill his youthful vision of old age-a time, he had hoped, when...
Family: Married Oct. 9, 1919 to Caroline P. Jenkins of Glymont, Md. Six children: three boys (Roger Jr., 29; William, 27; Michael, 18), three girls (Caroline, a nun, 30; Anna, 24; Mary...