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Ermyntrude

A spendthrift daughter of the cloth who trades her archdeacon father's squalid respectability for a lady's maid's post and a shot at another fortune.

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Also known as Ermyntrude, The Archdeacon Ermyntrude, Ermyntrude Interrupting, Ermyntrude Duval, Captain Duval, Duval, Ermyntrude Captain Duval, Ermyntrude Sir, Ermyntrude Laughing, Ermyntrude But General Von Schinkenburg, Ermyntrude Shocked

First appearance: the inca of perusalem

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Ermyntrude is a woman of expensive habits and frank appetites, raised in a rectory but formed for luxury. When her father's income collapses, she refuses to descend to what he calls respectable poverty and announces she…

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TIThe IncaCDCatherine Dash…LALord Augustus …CECaptain Edstas…GMGeneral Mitche…ERErmyntrude

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  • Family
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  • Overruled and Inca romances
  • Great Catherine court
  • Protagonist

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