![]() ![]() ![]() Brock, a veteran of rejection who aches to love, will (helped along by the dreadful servant known as Wild Rose) end up as a suicide. Lavish love, then, comes only from their governess, that plump partridge Mrs. Aroon and younger brother Hubert, therefore, concentrate on drawing out affection from charming Papa, a marvelous horseman and discreet womanizer who's only impressed by the children's equestrian expertise. Charles-who, as a child and young woman, is at the mercy of her own timid, vulnerable nature and at the mercy of Mummie, an icy and elegant woman who loathes children, sociability, and housekeeping, whose every remark is a bare bodkin. With some wickedly crafty portraits, this Irish author, published here for the first time, pinpricks beneath the crusty ""good behaviour"" of some strenuously leisured Irish gentry in the 1920s, thus exposing a particularly refined brand of savagery. ![]()
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