Maggie Cardinal, at the time, was nineteen years of age.
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole was an English novelist. Walpole was determined to be accepted as the equal of Anthony Trollope and Henry James. In his early days, he received frequent and generally approving scrutiny from major literary figures.
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The Captives
The Captives
The characters are captives in a religious environment-sometimes orthodox, sometimes fervently fanatical-and a couple is reunited after many wanderings and an unhappy marriage.
"[...]bell suddenly stopped and in the silence that followed one could hear the slight creak of some bough driven by the sea-wind against the wall.
Hugh Seymour Walpole (March 13, 1884 - June 1, 1941), was an English novelist
He was a prolific worker who embraced a variety of genres. He also wrote: The Prelude to Adventure (1912), The Golden Scarecrow (1915), The Captives (1920), and The Cathedral (1922).
The Captives
Martin walked into the street with a confused sense of triumph and defeat, that confusion that comes to all sensitive men at the moment when they are stepping, against their will, from one set of conditions into another.
Reproduction of the original: The Captives by Horace Walpole
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