Sophy of Kravonia: A NovelA young maidservant, Sophy Grouch, born into an unassuming family, embarks on a life-changing journey, first to Paris and then to a Balkan principality. This tale, set in the nineteenth century, is enriched with history and romance and tells of the love, courage and vivacity that stirred ordinary Sophy from her roots and transformed her into Sophy of Kravonia. The narrative describes her childhood at Morpingham, her sojourn in Paris under the roof of Lady Margaret Duddington, before arriving in Kravonia. |
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answered arms asked Baroness Dobrava Basil Williamson Brownlow Captain Markart Captain Mistitch Casimir cheek Colonel Stafnitz Countess Ellenburg cried dark door doubt Duddington face fear fight followed gave girl Golden Lion guns hand head heard heart horse Hôtel de Paris Julia Robins King Alexis King's kissed knew Krath Kravonia Lady Meg Lady Meg's laugh Lepage lived looked Lord Dunstanbury Lukovitch Madame Mantis Marie Zerkovitch mark Miklevni mind Monseigneur Monsieur Morpingham Natcheff night North River Palace passed perhaps Peter Vassip Pharos Pindar Praslok pretty Prince of Slavna Prince's Rastatz Red Star rode rose round Savres seemed Sergius sheepskin side silence smile Smilker Sophy Grouch Stefanovitch Stenovics Stenovics's Sterkoff stood strange street Suleiman's Tower talk Talti tell thing thought to-night told turned vitch voice Volseni waited walked whispered window woman word young Zerko
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Page 17 - Not to covet nor desire other men's goods ; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
Page 17 - To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart : To keep my hands from picking and stealing ; and my tongue from evil speaking, lying, and slandering; To keep my body in temperance, soberness, and chastity ; Not to covet nor desire other men's goods : but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me.
Page 81 - ... Tower, a relic of Turkish rule, built on a simple plan: a square curtain wall with a bastion at each corner enclosing a massive round tower. In spite of the flatness of the surrounding country, the appearance of Slavna is not unpicturesque. Time and the hand of man — Kravonians are a colour-loving race — -have given many tints, soft and bright, to the roofs, gables and walls of the old quarters in the north section of Slavna. In the centre of the city a pretty little canal has been built...
Page 81 - Michael, containing the cathedral, the fine old city hall, several good town-houses dating two or three hundred years back, barracks, and the modern but not unsightly Government offices. Through this square and the streets leading to it from west and east there now runs an excellent service of electric cars; but at the date with which we are concerned a crazy fiacre or a crazier omnibus was the only public means of conveyance. Not a few good private equipages were, however, to be seen, for the Kravonians...
Page 261 - The king is dead — the king is dead — the king is dead ! Long live the king! " And up from the sea that had just entombed his sire rose the young monarch of a new day; while the courtier clouds, in their ruby robes, turned faces still aglow with the favours of their dead lord, to borrow brighter blazonry from the smile of a new master.
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Page 81 - ... the south, giving a rounded margin to the King's Pleasure Gardens. Travellers to Slavna are advised to visit the Casino, the Botanical Gardens and Suleiman's Tower, a relic of Turkish rule, built on a simple plan: a square curtain wall with a bastion at each corner enclosing a massive round tower. In spite of the flatness of the surrounding country, the appearance of Slavna is not unpicturesque. Time and the hand of man — Kravonians are a colour-loving race — -have given many tints, soft...
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