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Lovers in Lisbon

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Beautiful eighteen-year-old waif Felicita Galvão is penniless, almost starving and all alone in the world when the Duchesse de Monreuil finds her desperately trying to sell her needlework at The Grand Hotel in Lisbon.

Struck by Felicita’s deep blue eyes – so different from those of any Portuguese girl she has ever seen – she agrees to buy everything the girl has to sell and offers her a ride to her home in her smart carriage.

Something about this young beauty strongly reminds the Duchesse of herself at the same age when she first found the love of her life, Juan, the Marques de Oliveira Vasconles – said by everyone to be ‘the most handsome and the most exciting gentleman in the whole of Portugal’.

Still deeply bitter over the way that the Marques Juan has abandoned her to marry another ‘whose blood is the equal of mine’, the Duchesse suddenly sees a way to use this young innocent beauty to wreak the revenge that she has been dreaming of and planning for years.

Moving Felicita into her rented Villa, she persuades her to impersonate the Duchesse’s niece, the Comtesse Felicity de Monreuil, and in that guise meet the current Marques Alvaro de Oliveira Vasconles.

The Duchesse means to break the heart of her lost love’s son as hers was broken so cruelly by his father.

But it seems that love or Fate or both will combine to deny her vengeance.

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Author’s Note If legends are to be believed, Lisbon was founded by the great God Ulysses, but it is true that the Greeks traded along the Iberian coast and the large Harbour of the River Tagus was for a long time called Olissibona, a name that is to be found on some of the earliest printed maps. Lisbon today, with its semi-circle of seven hills sheltering the narrow flat land on the slow-flowing tidal river, is extremely beautiful. The people are smiling and welcoming and the fish, fresh and delicious in the restaurants and the many lovely Churches have an atmosphere that speaks of the faith of its people that has remained unchanged over the centuries. The narrow pavements in the Old City are crowded by a colourful throng of tourists, the many hawkers of lottery tickets, the blind street singer with his guitar and the fruit pedlar with his barrow. Flowers are sold around the splashing fountains of Rossio and the smell of coffee wafts from the cafés to mingle with the sharp sultry breeze from the sea. It is all very unlike the hustle and bustle of more modern Cities and far more attractive. Outside Lisbon, Estoril with its Villas, expensive hotels, flowered terraces and elegant shops, has become the home of many European Monarchs and Royalty who have lost their Thrones. But while the last King of Portugal has gone, and with him most of the Court, a small creek still bears the name the ‘Queen’s Beach’.

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