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  1. Public Bookmark 88

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    [The word trope is often used for describing commonly recurring literary and rhetorical devices, motives of clichés in creative works. This is the 'marriage of convenience' trope.]
    Olivia Caliban is determined to adopt the Baudelaire siblings. But in order to do so, she must be married. Jacques offers, even though he has been acting standoffish towards her ever since their reunion at the carnival.

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    30 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 24

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    “Welcome to the way station, Olivia Caliban.”

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    30 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 27

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    Real or imagined, what does it matter?

     

    Five things that never happened to Olivia Caliban and Jacques Snicket, and one that did.

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    30 Jun 2026

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    Wil noh Daiomoru of Queenscove was nine when he realized that no one knew who he was.

    (“Wil doesn’t know who she is.” Da’s voice was rising in pitch. “She’s nine."

    “Wil is a very mature and self-aware nine-year-old,” said Aunt Kel. There was a hard edge to her voice that Wil didn’t hear very often. “And if you’re going to be hysterical about this, we’ll talk about it in the morning.”

    “I think,” said Mama, “that we thought we had two daughters, but we actually have a daughter and a son.”)
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    Set ten years after Lady Knight.

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    26 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 20

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    Caroline turned away again, her jaw tightening almost imperceptibly.

    This was absurd.

    She had been placed — maneuvered — into this situation. Separated from Lady Catherine, from the sphere in which her attentions might be properly directed and, more importantly, properly observed. Installed instead in a light, exposed carriage with a younger son whose fortune was uncertain and whose prospects, while respectable, were by no means assured.

    It was, she thought, a test.

    Or a trap.

    All orchestrated by Eliza Bennet Mrs. Darcy.

    Very well.

    If she could not avoid it, she would endure it — and on her own terms. She suddenly felt very cross, and became determined to make Colonel Fitzwilliam feel very cross as well.

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    10 Jun 2026