Ayala's Angel

24th November at 8pm (UK)
Chapters 40-52
Join our Big Read of Ayala’s Angel: two orphaned sisters face different fates in love and family, exploring independence, duty, and the pressures of Victorian marriage. All welcome.

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The energy, the zeal, the true faith of the man, were admirable. Sir John was half disposed to rise from his seat to embrace the man, and hail him as his brother,—only that had he done so he would have made himself as ridiculous as Bagwax. Zeal is always ridiculous. 'I think I see it all,' he said.

John Caldigate - Chapter 48, Sir John Joram's Chambers