![]() ![]() And like Hugo, John prefers to travel cross-country on horseback rather than in a chaise with a servant and piles of baggage. Like Hugo, John is a large man, six-foot-four, with a gentle manner, a sense of humor, and a great deal of intelligence that he sometimes hides behind an intentionally bovine manner. Like Hugo, John is a former army officer who sold out after Napoleon’s defeat-though, in John’s case, he sold out after Leipzig, and when Napoleon escaped from Elba and began the Hundred Days, he rejoined and thus (like Hugo) was present at Waterloo. The hero, Captain John Staple, shares several characteristics with Hugo Darracott of The Unknown Ajax. It is more of a mystery than a romance and is told primarily from the point of view of the hero. ![]() ![]() Georgette Heyer’s novel The Toll Gate is a little different from her typical Regencies. ![]()
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