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More Than Romance. Two stories illustrate the methods Author Bentley uses in all seven. In Revenge Upon Revenge, she sets three young men on a bloody course of vengeance in obedience to the private laws of a medieval feud between great families. The somberest of these gallants falls to the King's men when his mistress cuts his bowstring. The story seems like mere costume drama until it is read beside A Case of Conscience, in which the stone-faced chapel puritans of mid-Victorian times re-enact a similar feud-this time in terms of a squalid...
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