![]() So did the Seaforth Doom come at last to pass. Some time later, while driving her sister out in her carriage, the ponies took fright and both sisters were thrown out. Recently widowed, she returned from the East to take possession of the estate wearing her widows’ weeds – a black dress and white cap – and named Lady Hood, an uncanny fulfilment of the prophecy. ![]() The Puzzle Ring begins with Hannah discovering a letter addressed to the Viscountess of Wintersloe Castle, her mother, whom has. For nearly four hundred pages, I was drawn into the magic words and world woven by Kate Forsyth. The elder, Mary Mackenzie, had married a man called Sir Samuel Hood who lived in the East Indies. From the very first sentence of The Puzzle Ring, I was hooked. He died soon afterwards, leaving only his two daughters. One by one his sons died, and in his grief the Earl turned his face to the wall and would not speak. ![]() ![]() Among his friends and neighbours were four great lords, one of which was buck-toothed, one had a cleft palate, another stammered and the fourth, unfortunately, was not very bright. An attack of scarlet fever when he has twelve left him deaf, but he still married and in time had four sons and two daughters. Then the ninth Earl of Seaforth, called Francis Humberton Mackenzie, was born in 1794. ![]()
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