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Diana Tempest - Volume 1

Mary Cholmondeley

Book Overview: 

Colonel Tempest , his wastrel son Archie and beautiful daughter Diana (Di) are dismayed when they are cut out of the will of old Mr Tempest, Colonel Tempest’s brother. All of the Tempest fortune and estates at Overleigh pass to son John. However, everyone except John knows that he is illegitimate.

Colonel Tempest, enraged, agrees in a drunken stupor to a bounty of £10,000 on John’s head although he later comes to bitterly regret this.

Meanwhile, Di, who is strong and independent, has vowed she will never marry. However, as she gets to know her cousin John, over time they become close.

John eventually learns of his illegitimacy and its implications. What will therefore happen to his deepening love for Di and his claim to the family fortune?

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Certainly, my dear sir, certainly; but at the same time all agitation, all tendency to excitement, must be rigorously avoided."

"Is he really dying?" interrupted Colonel Tempest.

"He is."

"How long has he?" Colonel Tempest felt as if a hand were tightening round his throat. The doctor shrugged his shoulders.

"Three hours. Five hours. He might live through the night. I cannot say."

"There would be time," said Colonel Tempest to himself; and, not without a shuddering foreboding that his brother might[40] die in his actual presence, without giving him time to bolt, he entered the sick-room, from which the doctor had beckoned the nurse, and closed the door.

The room was full of light, for the dying man had been oppressed by the darkness in which he lay, and a vain attempt had been made to alleviate it by the flood of April sunshine which had been let into the room. Through the open window came the rapture of the . . . Read More

Community Reviews

La cuantiosa herencia de los Tempest es recibida por el que todos consideran un hijo ilegítimo del jefe de la familia. El despecho lleva al hermano superficial y derrochador de éste a hacer una apuesta fatal sobre la vida de su sobrino. Una gran escritora británica con una perceptiva mirada sobre la

Es una novela de la época victoriana que se lee muy bien, con una intriga que mantiene el interés hasta el final.

Qué maravilla

Of the novels I've read with the Victorians Group here on Goodreads over the last 2 and a half years, this is my favorite. I'll be after her better-known work Red Pottage soon.

Diana Tempest is a sensation novel written in 1893. The story primarily takes place in Yorkshire. We learn that Colonel Temp

I read this on the recommendation of a fictional character.

Let me explain. In the book Gilded Cage there’s a brief mention that the main character is reading a book called Diana Tempest. Given that the main character is fiercely intelligent and independent, ruthless, completely comfortable with her

Very Jane Austen. The writing was lovely and evocation of time and place. Plot creaky and could see where it is was going from the beginning. Worth reading. Interesting to observe English class system from the safety of 21 century.

Credo che in fondo quel che più mi incanta, in questa letteratura vecchia più di un secolo, sia il ritmo, il passo con cui ti conduce dentro una storia, con una 'leisure' dimenticata ai giorni nostri, quando anche le sinfonie vengono ridotte a dieci minuti, i dipinti a poche linee abbozzate e i roma

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