Word: plaguey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birth. His new position enabled Stephen to marry well, prosper mightily in business. But he was haunted by his memories, superstitiously felt that his luck was too good to last. At length he fled secretly to the Malay archipelago. There he met an Englishwoman with a past as plaguey as his own and shared an island with her for three idyllic months. She swam out to the sharks when he asked her to share his hut. Heartbroken, Stephen returned to England to discover that his daughter had unknowingly fallen in love with young Nigel, now grown up and endowed with...
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