Word: servantâ
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...Story. Bertha was a big, blonde, Baltic lummox; one of those inarticulate girls; a strong, hardworking, silent, lonely servant???apparently impassive?regarded by mistress after mistress as just a good plain cook?yet possessed of a certain dumb, unconscious power of understanding. She passed through the lives of many other people, and, somehow, altered them...
...story tells of a princess. Into her lonely castle comes a nobleman (Conway Tearle) in the guise of a servant???bound by oath to her brother's service? for a term of years. Shortly thereafter comes the sinister Due de Tours (Wallace Beery) seeking her love. How she repulsed him and how the servant rescued her from his drunken embrace comprise the burden of the plot. There is abundant death and sword play. There is sentiment and spectacle. There is an absence of pretense...
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