۹۳. یک فرشتهٔ بسیار شیطون (مجموعهٔ ابدی)

Small And Slight With Fair Hair The Colour Of Spring Sunshine And China-blue Eyes, Young Tilda Is Dismayed That By Command Of Queen Victoria, Because Of Her Royal Connections, She Is To Marry The Prince Of A Distant Country Called Obernia.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Not Only Has She Never Met The Prince, She Does Not Want To Marry Him, As She Wishes To Marry For Love One Day And Certainly Not For Political Convenience.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ In Munich On Her Way To Meet Her Prince, Tilda Insists On Attending A Rowdy Beer Hall And Becomes Embroiled In A Violent Student Riot.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Êbut Luckily She Is Rescued By Rudolph, An Impossibly Handsome Dashing Stranger, Who She Had Spied On When Walking In The Woods Near King LudwigÕs Beautiful Palace, The Linderhof.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ In Their Flight From The Riots, He Is Shot By The Police And They Take Refuge In The Home Of Frau Sturdel, A Local Midwife, Who Helps Tilda To Nurse The Young Man Back To Health.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Soon Tilda Has Fallen Head Over Heels In Love With Rudolph Ð And He With Her.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ But Surely Their Love Is Doomed Unless, Somehow, She Can Extricate Herself From Her Impending Royal Mariage De Convenance.Ê After the Battle of Waterloo and the subsequent Army of Occupation in France, the Earl of Monthurst returns to his ancestral home in England to find it in a very bad condition. Because labour had not been available during the war, The Hall, which goes back to Tudor times, was badly in need of repair, while the farms on his extensive estate were untenanted and the fields unploughed. Not only had all the local men been taken by the Army, but a large number had not returned. The villagers had faced near starvation and many older people had died from want of attention. The Earl had unwisely brought back with him a French Comtesse, who was very beautiful and possessive and was obviously determined that he should marry her. He had thought that he and the Comtesse could arrive quietly and remain unnoticed in his home. However, he finds the Vicar's daughter, the lovely Raina Locke, is determined to make him realise his responsibility towards his people who have suffered so acutely...