The Unlikely Adventures of Ranulf the Unready (ePub)
Near the end of the first year of WWI a woman presented herself to the American Embassy at Sofija, the Americans still neutrals, then doing the routine diplomatic duties of the warring nations.
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Near the end of the first year of WWI a woman presented herself to the American Embassy at Sofija, the Americans still neutrals, then doing the routine diplomatic duties of the warring nations.
She was short and blonde and would have been a beauty except for a raw scar across her forehead and down on to her cheek and the ravages to be expected from far advanced pregnancy in a starving, war time country.
She insisted she was , Princess of Illyria and heir to the throne. She had escaped from the Communist massacre of her family while at their summer villa on the and traveled across country to Bulgravia. If true she was then also the second cousin of both the British King and the Russian Czar.
Disbelieved she conceived her own proofs. She wrote out a series of questions about the Royals of Victoria's far-flung progeny. Then she wrote out the answers and promptly disappeared.
In time it was determined that both questions and answers revealed a very detailed and intimate knowledge of the Royals. A knowledge that could only be known by a highly placed member of the family.
In this the second of the series Ranulf who knew as a child is assigned to locate her and vet her as to her identity. The Lady Audra is sent along to fend off any extraneous perils such languorous Balkan spies or whatever ogres might be conjured up by Rannie's exuberant imagination and adventuresome spirit. They meet several of each.
In private Adam Dumphy is frequently heard to say, "Who can account for the English." Not that he accounts them 'no-accounts'. On the contrary he admires them extravagantly. It is just that he feels that some of their beliefs and customs are, well.... unaccountable.
For example he feels that the British time honored belief that a rat in the cask makes for the best cider. Of course he admits that in the US we did once consider that it took rattlesnake heads in a barrel of cowboy whiskey to produce just the right 'bouquet'. An up grade on the British belief surely but hardly one to boast about.
Then he might mention the British custom of hanging woodcock in the sun until the meat is ready to fall off the bones before cooking. Of course here we have college freshman who swallow gold fish and apparently otherwise normal persons who eat sushi.
Or he will quote the fact that to the Brit at home the domestic cat dozing before the fireplace is man's second-best friend. While abroad he gobbles down his second-best friend voraciously when sautéed in wine and garlic.
He feels then that we really have no right to be critical of the Brits but still it is such fun to laugh at them. And after all they poke fun at themselves (Wodehouse and Waugh) and they did so first. So it must be, "jolly well cricket, old chap, doncher know" for us to do it too.
In this book he does it again and again
- Autor: Adam Dumphy
- 2006, 1 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: AUTHORHOUSE
- ISBN-10: 1467800589
- ISBN-13: 9781467800587
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.03.2006
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