A novel, 1919
A Damsel in Distress
Maud Marsh wants to marry Geoffrey Raymond despite the opposition of her aunt, Lady Caroline, and her brother Percy, Lord Belpher.
How it begins
Inasmuch as the scene of this story is that historic pile, Belpher Castle, in the county of Hampshire, it would be an agreeable task to open it with a leisurely description of the place, followed by some notes on the history of the Earls of Marshmoreton, who have owned it since the fifteenth century.
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