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Love Among the Lions

F. Anstey

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Spanish descent was apparent in her magnificent black tresses, lustrous eyes, and oval face of olive tinted with richest[Pg 13] carmine. As I afterwards learnt, she was the daughter of a Spanish Government official of an ancient Castilian family, who had left his widow in such straitened circumstances that she was compelled to support herself by exhibiting performing mice and canaries at juvenile parties, until she met and married the Professor, who at that time was delivering recitations illustrated by an oxy-hydrogen lantern.

The second marriage had not been altogether a success, and, now that the Professor was a widower, I fancy that his relations with his imperious stepdaughter were not invariably of the most cordial nature, and that he would have been grateful to any one who succeeded in winning her hand and freeing him from her sway.

I did not know that then, however, though I was struck by the deferential politeness of his manner towards her, and. . . Read More

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3.00
- Kelly - Dec 16, 2018

Amusing short novel from 1898 about a young man who becomes enamored of a woman who craves adventure and notoriety. He comes up with the idea of having a wedding inside a lion's cage, and she agrees to marry him, excited about the publicity more than the marriage. Things go delightfully awry. Never

3.00
- Neil - Sep 06, 2015

This little novella by F. Anstey has none of his usual fantasy and isn't particularly funny rather it's just a rather long shaggy dog story about a couple who for reasons of publicity decide to get married in the circus lions cage.

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