![]() ![]() How Far To Bethlehem? One of Lofts’ books that is becoming harder to find. ![]() These extremes of emotions destined Jassy to a life of passion and anguish. Elizabeth Twysdale, who taught Jassy her lessons, hated her more and more with every passing day. Barney Hatton, the dispossessed heir of Mortiboys loved her, as did the half-witted servant girl who worked there. She inspired either love or hate from those about her. Jassy: She was the daughter of a preacher and a gypsy, a strange elusive child who grew into an even stranger woman. It had ghosts, legends and a history that grew stranger with every generation. ![]() Children, both heirs and bastards, were born there. It was rescued by an illiterate woman farmer, became rich with an Indian Nabob and poor with a twentieth century hotelier. It survived many eras and many reigns – it saw the passing of Cromwell and the Civil War. But when she arrives, she finds she is the pawn in a complex plot of intrigue.īless This House: The house was built in the Old Queen’s time for an Elizabethan pirate who was knighted for the plunder he brought home. The Scent of Cloves: A young Englishwoman is groomed to become the bride of the son of a Dutch plantation owner. ![]()
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