Word: starilec
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...husband's death in 1900, cut her hair short, adopted peasant garb and, during the War, equipped and mannishly managed a large field hospital. Although often styled "richest woman in Jugoslavia," she recently dispensed with nearly all her servants, then filled the sumptuous salons of her chateau at Starilec with innumerable dogs and birds...
...night after a woman had screamed "Don't touch me, Milica!" the Baroness Irma Molnar did not return to Starilec. She had left her estate on foot in the morning, peasant clad, without seeing to her dogs and birds as she usually did. The few old servitors at Starilec. humble, discreet, waited several days, then reported their mistress' disappearance. Out rushed eager search parties to comb crag and dale for "the richest woman in Jugoslavia." There was bound to be pots of money in it for the man who found her, perhaps wounded by some wild animal...
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