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Vanity Can Bring Down a Pompous Rector
In this chapter excerpt from Alan Muir’s Beauty’s Secret, Rector Brent returns to England from Australia to reveal his plan to marry widow Mrs Barbara Temple. Misled by gossip about age, he confronts her with a charge she denies. she rebukes him, exposing his folly as the scene ends with a walk in the garden and the three Temple daughters watching.
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Mr. Brent
Australia
England
Brent
Otter
Rector Brout
Percival
Moe
Linnst
Wei
Hector Brant
Barbara Temple
Buwat
Barbara Teaple
Stéle
Cap- Fempla
Bors
Temple
Tully
Fata Buck
Sibyl
Hhn
Mamimoa
Mamma
Aira Temple
Mr. Brunt
Mr. Breat
Mercy
Mas
Towhoe
Barnans
Ler
London
Kettlewell
Society of Bis Son
Barbara Templa
Brent Junior
Percy
Anas
Brent Senior
Brett
Sophia Templera
Ile
Dant
Dover
Perry
Yeetor
Hrent
Usher
Lindead
Brant
Sophia
East
Sophia Temple
Tonk
Invar
Caroline
Moamma
Iris
Leaple