So He Has Gone Abroad The Duchess Ends Her Engagement
Fay and Ernest Severn face a tangled romance in which Jessica Wylding’s engagement to Pasco Bar rington looms as a barrier. Fay frets over love loyalty while Ernest contemplates breaking his own betrothal as he learns of a Devon heirloom wealth that could reshape their lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fay
Ernest Severn
Ernest
George
Nettie
Pasco
Sir George
Miss Ashton
Wylding
Gilbert Wylding
Jessica Wilecott
Severn’s
Jessica
Mrs. Barrington
Janet Barrington
Priory
London
Monte Carlo
Devonshire
Severn
Miss Johnson
Mary
Arthur
John
Kathleen Besley
The Lions Face as Seen by an Animal Trainer
A trainer describes the lion’s face as the embodiment of strength and fearlessness. He notes lines of majesty and power in repose, comparing it to the sphinx and idealized portraits of Washington.
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Washington
Right Handedness and the Low Right Shoulder
Authorities note that 85 to 95 percent of men in civilized societies are right handed and develop a low right shoulder. This is not new, as ancient Greek sculptors observed the trait to enhance symmetry in their subjects.
Roses and Secrets in a Welsh Flats Mystery
Miss Johnson and Mary, a pretty housemaid, tend a hermit in a derelict flat. A silent lover with a guarded life writes orders on a slate while roses and music reveal a romance, leading to a dramatic revelation about Lady Kathleen Besley and Arthur.
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Newton
Miss Johnson
Mary
John Jones
Curiosities and Odds From an Era’s Ephemera
Items noted include Moorish colored globes in drug store windows, wolves in Russia devouring about 200 people annually, a carrier pigeon covering 1600 yards per minute, Vienna's 32000 beggars, Burgundy pitch composition, ocean temperature variation limits, nostril size and lung notes, English belles wearing hand mirrors, Berlin’s midnight paper trend, lobsters mostly right-handed, Vanderbilt’s cigar rituals with a needle, a German Bible from 1544 1551, an ancient Pekin daily established in 908 with tri color editions, German troop smoke detection via red glasses, and Hungarian partridges released in Kansas near Cottonwood Falls.
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Russia
Vienna
Burgundy
England
Henry VII
Elizabeth
James I
Berlin
Commodore Vanderbilt
Congress Hall
Saratoga
Zurich
D. W. Dietrich
Lancaster County
King-Pan
Pekin
Germany
Kansas
Bisdeaa
Cottonwood Falls
Kanbes
Also Mentioned on This Page
Captain Severn
Geremn
Kathleen
Mr. Jones
Moses
Pharaoh
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