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Telescope schemes and scandalous romance unfold in a parsonage
A comic tale centers on Mrs. Mainwaring Trumpet who uses a telescope to spy on her fiancé the Rev. Arthur Arrowsmith at the Be church rectory. Complications erupt as a rival heiress arrives, accusations fly, and the telescope becomes a weapon in a farcical moral showdown ending in reconciliation and a museum display.
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Mainwaring
Benjamin Thornby
Bristol
Abe
Waring
Benjamin’ Thureby
Mr. Bounderby
Yemual
Blow
Mr. Blow
Lin Las
Mateh
Mia
Ang
Mrs. Blow
Arthur
Arrowsmith
Axronamith
Arthur Jarrowsmith
Dodgallen
London
Paddington
Matsatt
Adams
Lawk
Adame
Mrs. Trumpet
Lady ‘Macbeth
Adama
Bix
Mrs. Mainwaring
Lady Macbeth
Arthur Arrowsmith
Bayer
Dollond
Daine
Thia
Regs
F Adams
Partea
Quick
Arthur wArrawamith
Ivy
Crush- ET
Sam
Arnold
Horace. Mann
Tropic
Gt ‘Scio
Constantinople
Chesme
Kastro
Woundles
At . Chin
Menita
Monastir
Virinos
Philatia
Scott
Howley
Telegraph
Batttle
Yorktown
Des Moines
Hurlington
Hawk Eye