🚀 go-pugleaf

On Oct 30, 10:35 pm, flav...@verizon.net wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:27:09 -0700, HHW <coaster132...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> >Okay, I have now read your husban's journal.
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> >"The protagonist is twenty-nine year old the Hon. Rudolf Rassendyll,
> >younger brother of the Earl of Burlesdon and (through an ancestor's
> >sexual indiscretion) a distant cousin of Rudolf V, the soon-to-be-
> >crowned King of Ruritania (a Germanic kingdom situated 'twixt the
> >German and Austrian Empires). King Rudolf is a hard-drinking playboy,
> >unpopular with the common people, but supported by the aristocracy,
> >the Church, the Army, and the rich classes in general. His political
> >rival is his younger half-brother, Michael, Duke and Governor of
> >Strelsau, the capital city. Michael has no legitimate claim to the
> >throne, because he is the son of their father's second, morganatic
> >marriage: there are hints, about his swarthy appearance and
> >Rassendyll's taunting him as a 'mongrel', that he may be partly
> >Jewish. Michael is regarded as champion of Strelsau's poor working
> >classes, and also is popular with the peasants in the countryside. The
> >novel seems sympathetic, however, with those who would support the
> >dissolute despot.
> >When Michael has Rudolf abducted and imprisoned in the castle in the
> >small town of Zenda, Rassendyll must impersonate the future King at
> >the coronation. There are complications, plots, and counter-plots,
> >among them the schemes of Michael's mistress Antoinette de Mauban, and
> >those of his villainous henchman Rupert of Hentzau, and Rassendyll
> >falling in love with Princess Flavia, the King's betrothed. In the
> >end, the King is restored to his throne - but the lovers must part."
>
> He;s obsessed w/this shit.  He;s not a religious jew as I am.  He even
> drives his car to be serviced on sabbaths, for G-d;s sake!
>
> Susan

Nothing wrong with a romantic turn of mind though I imagined it was
not common among the orthodox.