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Desolate splendour

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The Plethern family estate, Morvane, is passing to the next generation. The mother prefers her younger son and plots for a way to leave the estate to him rather than to the four-hour-older twin.
The Plethern family estate, Morvane, is passing to the next generation. The mother prefers her younger son and plots for a way to leave the estate to him rather than to the four-hour-older twin.

DESOLATE SPLENDOUR

DESOLATE SPLENDOUR

BY

MICHAEL SADLEIR

TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED, AT ST. MARTIN’S HOUSE 1923

COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1923 BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED.

PRINTED IN CANADA

THIS FLAMBOYANT TALE—A STORY OF AMBITIOUS HEDONISM AND OF THE DESOLATE SPLENDOUR OF A GIRL’S DEVOTION, A STORY OF PERVERTED CRUELTY, OF LUST FOR PROPERTY AND OF THE GENIAL OBTUSENESS OF THE UPRIGHT IS FROM GRATITUDE FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP FROM ADMIRATION OF HIS SENSIBILITY AND FROM A DUE APPRECIATION OF HIS AUSPICIOUS CIPHER INSCRIBED WITH CORDIAL REGARD TO O. K.

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