It starts with an air of Cavaliers and convents; then the plot suggests a more Victorian sensation novel of moral taint and repentance. In the end, the Restoration England setting bears only a little on anyone's actions, and the conclusion was a fairly realistic compromise. It's a lot like a story.
Project Gutenberg etext #9377. The eight-bit version handles the French names and babbling better than plain seven-bit.
So wrote clew in Fiction (19th c.). | TrackBack