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100	1		_aHarding, Emily Grace, _d1857-1904
245	1	2	_aA noble sacrifice
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aAlso published under the title: A fatal heritage.
500			_aRelease date is 2025-11-13
508			_aAl Haines
520			_a"A noble sacrifice" by Emily Grace Harding is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set in a Welsh valley shadowed by a family curse, it follows Jack the boatman and the golden-haired foundling he names Little Miss Primrose, alongside a secretive Black Horseman and the troubled Earl of Bryn Afon, weaving themes of fate, hidden identity, and temperance against the menace of a haunted castle. The opening of the story presents a storm-lashed valley where Jack tends his beloved hand-bridge as a gipsy foretells disaster and hints at the castle’s curse. That night a veiled woman places a child in his arms on the bridge, leaving a note that entrusts Primrose to him, forbids strong drink, and warns her to keep away from the castle. As Primrose thrives, a black-cloaked rider arrives twice yearly with funds and news, while a mysterious red “star” burns at the castle windows one winter, unsettling Jack. The Earl briefly returns with gay guests; Jack intervenes when wine is offered to the child, and later recounts his own daughter’s death in the subterranean passage and how grief drove him to build the bridge. Primrose grows under the kindly tutelage of Master Rhys at the old monastery, learns both Welsh and English, and is secretly taken on a long ride to see her beautiful, sorrowing mother. Years pass, the castle lapses into silence again, and the gipsy’s whispers persist, until, at the start of a late summer evening when Primrose is about fourteen, she drifts in her coracle and notices a fisherman with merry blue eyes whose face feels strangely familiar. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: Walter Scott, Ltd., 1897
653			_aHistorical fiction
653			_aGreat Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649 -- Fiction
653			_aTemperance -- Fiction
700	1		_aMacklin, Thomas Eyre, _d1867-1943
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77224
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