6/27/2023 0 Comments Palladian by Elizabeth Taylor![]() ![]() As for Cassandra’s charge: everyone but the girl’s father (Marion) agrees that Sophy should be at school so she can be properly socialized (and lifted out of the general familial decay). Marion’s controlling, anxiety-riddled aunt and his two cousins-a bizarre, cat-like woman doctor (who is always prowling about, toying with, and ready to pounce on Cassandra) and her drunkard brother (who is engaged in a desultory affair with a blowsy pub owner)-also reside in the mouldering manor. ![]() ![]() Cassandra doesn’t seem to notice, or, if she does, she’s quite unbothered. No, Marion is hardly a catch, and he’s apparently quite effeminate to boot-not a man at all (!) according to some of the characters. Once she arrives at the estate, however, she discovers that the gentleman is mostly ensconced in his library, where he is deeply engaged in the study of dead languages-even as the house, with its Palladian front, falls to rack and ruin about him. Having unhealthily indulged in reading novels, which she views as guides for life, she has come to the conclusion that she must fall in love with the master of the house. ![]() Cassandra, a recently orphaned English girl in her late teens, goes to serve as a governess at a decaying great house. ![]()
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