William Makepeace Thackeray
The Story of Mary Ancel
From ‘The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh’ (1840).
This short story recently appeared on PG Australia.
The setting is Alsace in revolutionary France. A young woman is faced with a cruel dilemma: she must either marry a very unpleasant revolutionary, or her closest relatives will be executed…
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