AN UNLIKELY COUNTESS
Lily Budge and the 13th Earl of Galloway
LOUISE CARPENTER
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For Tom
and
Randolph Galloway
I am very fond of the good soldier Schweik … Iam convinced that you will sympathise with thismodest, unrecognised hero. He did not set fire to thetemple of the Goddess at Ephesus, like that fool of aHerostratus, merely in order to get his name intothe newspapers and the school reading books.
And that, in itself, is enough.
JAROSLAV HAŠEK, The Good Soldier Schweik
Contents
1 The Most Caring Place in the World
3 Virescit Vulnere Virtus: Valour Grows Strong from a Wound
7 Lobotomised Patients Make Good Citizens
10 Anglo-Catholic with Charismatic Overtones
14 Will the Earl Get a Crumb of Comfort?
16 I Would Have Hated to Commit Murder
17 We Have the Name Darling, but Alas, We do not Have the Game
19 Never Judge a Person until You’ve Walked a Mile in their Shoes
20 New Places to Wear Diamonds