Lord Abberley's Nemesis by Amanda Scott

By Amanda Scott

Adam Fortescue, the 6th Earl of Abberley, was once the scandal of the county. This good-looking lord had allow his property visit wreck and his personal based individual convey each signal of dissipation as he pursued a lifetime of heedless excitement within the quickest circles of London society.

But now pass over Margaret Caldecourt wanted Abberley's support to prevent her family's birthright from being stolen through her unscrupulous aunt Annis and unsavory cousin Jordan. And the one technique to get that very important reduction was once to come back Abberley to respectability--whether he sought after it or not.

One factor, in spite of the fact that, Margaret didn't reckon on as she got down to store the earl from his folly: that she should be so silly as to fall in love with a guy whose weak point may well good conquer her strength...

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Whenever they played for the workers, which they did frequently, the couple always closed by playing the Internationale. Always the audience would rise and cheer, even those who were not Communists; for, whatever their creed might be, they knew that this hymn meant battle against the oppressors. These New York Jews wanted to fight Hitlerism with any and every weapon they could lay hands upon. Lanny had first seen her in the midst of World War, and she had been welcoming him to the land of his fathers.

Johannes would have turned anarchist if he had thought that was a way to bring justice upon the heads of those Nazi barbarians who had murdered his son and come so near to murdering himself. Johannes would pour it out in floods, and would have been greatly pleased if he had known what use was going to be made of it. They had been mixed up with all the European tribes for a thousand years, but alas, it hadn’t done them any good. Hansi Robin, tall and dark-haired, might have stepped out of any of the books of the Old Testament; he stood before them, grave and priestlike, playing the Jewish music that he loved: Kol Nidre and Achron’s Hebrew Prayer, and Ernest Bloch’s Nigun, from the Baal Shem suite.

R. And suppose the great man happened to be too busy to see him—what then would become of an art expert’s bright dream of changing world history? “Put not your trust in princes,” the psalmist had advised, and Lanny was not heeding the warning. They wanted to make the world safe for democracy, and at the same time to keep the country out of war. When they discovered that these aims were incompatible, they were in a predicament, and what wonder if their words one day contradicted the words of the previous day, and if their actions were not always in accordance with the campaign platforms of their party?

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