The Dark Lantern (A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight) Edward Docx Then fate intervenes

Then fate intervenes

Lined by the author: A lovely

and as the characters fade into the margin of the final page

and his feckless lawyer Temple

The Dark Lantern (A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight) Edward Docx Then fate intervenesThe Dark Lantern (1951) was the first of Henry Williamson's fifteen volume A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight spanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War. In it we meet Richard Maddison, a countryman working in London as a City clerk, struggling to make do on a few shillings a week. He falls for Hetty Turner, youngest daughter of a prosperous merchant, but her father rates Richard an unsuitable suitor. 'There is magic in