Short Fiction · Character
Lucy Savile
Once the town's dark-haired beauty, now a widowed woman of forty-five whose quiet rectitude masks a life measured against a love she never quite buried.
supporting
Also known as Lucy, Savile
First appearance: destiny and a blue cloak
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Lucy is visited by Barnet at her cottage; she is reserved and half-proud, painting flower outlines by candlelight to earn money, and she urges Barnet to make peace with his wife.
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Lucy Savile has become Lucy Downe's neighbor and the settled widow of a quiet town, her hair silvered and her mild eyes grown a little more stringent with years. When Barnet—the old friend everyone presumed dead—walks…
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- Other
Character groups
- Haunting Pasts and Duty
- Romantic Entanglements and Consequences
- Protagonist
- Complex Web of Love and Consequences
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