![]() There's a good picture of the fast-thickening war clouds, of the changing attitude towards Tory thinking - and eventually Julian realizes that his roots have gone deep, his loyalty is to the colonies, and he enlists. ![]() He has met and loved the girl his closest friend loves - and attempts to stay loyally away from her he scarcely thinks of a lovely available girl, who can see him and he befriends a ten-year-old twin girl, who, with her brother, becomes his shadow, at school or in free hours. An English youth, newly orphaned, is taken into the friendship of the towns leaders, given a helping hand and a job to his liking, and his Tory Leanings, natural in his ignorance of matters colonial, are minimized until the heat of battle is upon them. But the story, while - as always, charmingly told - has little new to offer, and follows an established design. ![]() One can see life going on around one in the pictures she makes. ![]() Elswyth Thane has a faculty for bringing other times - other places to life, and her picture of Williamsburg, when the unrest leading to the Revolution was under way, is no exception. ![]()
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