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HAWKINS, SIR ANTHONY HOPE (ANTHONY HOPE, pseud.). Lucinda. *$2 (2c) Appleton
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The scene is all set for a fashionable London wedding, but at the last moment something goes wrong. The wedding is “unavoidably postponed.” As a matter of fact the bride has disappeared. Waldo Rillington, the bridegroom, is about to start in pursuit of the pair, for he rightly assumes that she has gone with Arsenio Valdez, but the war intervenes and for years Lucinda is lost to her English friends. Julius Rillington, Waldo’s cousin, meets her once in the interval, comes upon her unexpectedly in the year 1916 in a town in southern France. She tells him her story but he refrains from telling it to the others and keeps the meeting secret. Julius is thereafter much involved in Lucinda’s affairs, and when she is set free, he marries her. Lucinda is a heroine who serenely refuses to be downed by fortune. She takes good or ill with the same imperturbability and so always has the better of her rival, Nina, later Lady Dundrannan.
“The canvas is small and the theme has no great originality, but it is treated with the delicately humorous grace which has always distinguished this author.”
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“There is some very clever characterization of the group of people involved in the delinquency.” S. M. R.
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“Light, whimsical, ironic, sophisticated, the history of ‘Lucinda’ is pleasantly diverting.”