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This novel, like others of Bragg's, takes place in the Cumberland country of England, circa 1802, at which time bounder meets beauty, perhaps too late to mend his profligate ways. Alexander Augustus Hope, M.P. Army colonel, aristocrat, arrives in the rustic Lake Country, boasting of wealth and title and bent on seduction. First it's a peasant lass, then a maidservant, then (sights set a bit higher) the daughter of local gentry - a girl rich and pretty but hopelessly bourgeois - to whom Hope proposes marriage. But before said can be accomplished, h
This novel, like others of Bragg's, takes place in the Cumberland country of England, circa 1802, at which time bounder meets beauty, perhaps too late to mend his profligate ways. Alexander Augustus Hope, M.P. Army colonel, aristocrat, arrives in the rustic Lake Country, boasting of wealth and title and bent on seduction. First it's a peasant lass, then a maidservant, then (sights set a bit higher) the daughter of local gentry - a girl rich and pretty but hopelessly bourgeois - to whom Hope proposes marriage. But before said can be accomplished, h