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Evensong

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Evensong	comment	Sprawling, Trollopean, quintessentially British novel published in 2015 by GMW Wemyss: the second in the Village Tales series, following on from 2013's Cross and Poppy and followed by 2016's The Day Thou Gavest.Not to be confused with Evensong of the Meratis Trilogy. Nor with Gail Godwin's Evensong.It was published in two volumes, Evensong: Nunc Dimittis and Evensong: Te Lucis Ante Terminum, and one Doorstopper omnibus volume. "Omnibus" here meaning "the size of a London bus." For the better amusement of all concerned, the full title of the work is, in a 17th â€“ 18th Century In Which a Trope Is Described pastiche, Evensong: Tales from Beechbourne, Chickmarsh, & the Woolfonts; the same being Village Tales recording the events of some few months in the District, to which are appended a series of recollections of interesting events having to do with the villages and district, their landmarks, and the persons of principal consequence therein, both present and historical. As you might guess, most chapters are succeeded by a chapter of historical (fictional) events in the villages, or short stories of local archaeological digs and the like.The Rector, Noel Paddick SSC, and Sher Mirza are an established, handshakes-at-best but every meal together everyday (with a chaperone) Chastity Couple. The weather is appalling: the setting is the period of the 2015 UK floods, after all. Teddy Gates, "the Hipster Chef" and owner of The Woolford House Hotel, is now a newish and naive County Councillor (Lib Dem, of course). Three other councillors â€“ one from each party â€“ have conned him into agreeing a Community-Threatening Construction scheme to run up social housing in his ward: the chocolate-box Woolfonts (Woolfont Magna, Woolfont Parva, Woolfont Crucis, and Woolfont Abbas). That way, the other councillors get credit for their good works â€¦ and credit in their own wards for not putting up the social housing in their own backyards.The crafty Duke of Taunton, the local landed proprietor, a peppery little man descended of a Stuart bastardy, points out that there is no land in the Woolfonts not already scheduled, protected, designated, or otherwise off-limits. But he determines to get Teddy out of his jam all the same. His Saving the Orphanage solution: get back some old Ministry of Defence land and build new, retro-Georgian houses.All comes right in the end, but much is changed forever, and not without pain.As a Doorstopper, is simply bursting with tropes.
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Evensong / int_101254d3	type	Barsetshire
Evensong / int_101254d3	comment	Barsetshire: In spades. And very much a modern version of the original, clergy and peers and All That. With the subversion that, as the Rural Dean notes, nowadays, the Church and its crises is regarded as a minority interest of harmless anoraks, "ecclesiastical trainspotters." Also why there are so many badasses around: the setting is Wiltshire, training and operational home of the British Army....
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Evensong / int_10e866aa	type	Fangirl
Evensong / int_10e866aa	comment	Fangirl: That, Hetty is. She's about thirteen as the series begins; it's normal. Embarrassing to everyone else, and perhaps to her in a few years, but normal.
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Evensong / int_137f467a	type	Hot Teacher
Evensong / int_137f467a	comment	Hot Teacher: Sher, of course, being the Sexiest Man in Britain, to the point at which Even the Guys Want Him.
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Evensong / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Evensong / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: The Duke has one. At decibels which would ground a Concorde. It's not so much that his only sibling has just died, it's the incessant, hackneyed condolences.
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Evensong / int_15aa2b3c	type	The Confidant
Evensong / int_15aa2b3c	comment	The Confidant: Noel both personally and by virtue of his calling, to everyone. The big MacGuffin has to do with the Duke's having become Crispin's.
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Evensong / int_174ea6a7	type	The Dutiful Son
Evensong / int_174ea6a7	comment	The Dutiful Son / The Reliable One: Sher's attempt to be one is what drove him to drink. And of course the Duke is this as against Crispin.
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Evensong / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Evensong / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: The Duke isn't quite old enough. Yet. The Dean is. So is Lord Mallerstang.
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Evensong / int_176a6683	type	The Social Expert
Evensong / int_176a6683	comment	The Social Expert: Mr Viney and Yeates the valet and First Footman are the arbiters of all matters of rank, hierarchy, and society, and can make or break you at the Duke's word. The raised-by-learned-and-academic-wolves Duke can, when tactically necessary, exert himself as such an expert, but it's clearly a learned skill and it annoys him to do so.
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Evensong / int_188668f2	type	Redemption Quest
Evensong / int_188668f2	comment	Redemption Quest: The Duke's view of what to do with inherited money. Also Crispin's dying arc, and why he left the Duke his memoirs to be passed on to the Yard and the security services. Also what, ironically, drives Edmond's activism, and results from it, too. For Edmond.
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Evensong / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
Evensong / int_1bf47ada	comment	The Medic: As G.P.s, Dr Witchard and Dr Lee are this to the surgeons at the hospital in Sarum.
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Evensong / int_1c751b35	type	The Vicar
Evensong / int_1c751b35	comment	The Vicar: Gleefully subverted and deconstructed as to all the clergy, Anglican or otherwise, and non-Christian as well as Christian. Because Good Is Not Soft.
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Evensong / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
Evensong / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: As the MacGuffin, Crispin's unexpurgated memoirs. The Duke, to the unease and astonishment of the rest of the hereditary peerage, is a biographer and historian (Archbishop Laud and Honour (Duff Cooper Prize); Rose and Laurel; Sir John, God Save You: a life of Betjeman; Beating the Bounds: the Wiltshire and Dorset Clubmen in 1645 (Wolfson Prize); Steam in Sacrifice: Operation Herrick; &c). The Rector has published on the Wesleys as Anglo-Catholics, and essays on free will and theodicy, the problem of evil. Sher Mirza is a composer (e.g., Bach in Euanthia: Twelve Canons and Fugues upon the Seikilos Epitaph). Equally, there are plenty of historic editions (and fictional Vermeers and Rubens paintings and all sorts of art objects) strewn about at the ducal properties. And then there are historical fictional documents: Johnson to Boswell, a letter from Addison, two poems by Pope, Wordsworth, Gray, Coleridge.... And the manor rolls, and the court leet records, and an account from the 15th Century wool trade â€“ it goes on. And Betjeman was, In-Universe, after all one of the Dukeâ€™s godfathers, so....
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Evensong / int_1d6f980e	type	Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls
Evensong / int_1d6f980e	comment	Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls: Hetty, take a bow. Lady Crispin is appalled. The Duke is simply glad of anything that gets his niece reading and writing. Of course, that's partly because...
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Evensong / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
Evensong / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: Averted in favor of Anglican chant and every Church of England setting for Mattins and Evensong ever published.
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Evensong / int_20152e12	type	Real Place Background
Evensong / int_20152e12	comment	Real-Place Background: The Fire Brigade and Neighbourhood Police Team covering the area are in Tisbury. The Hospital and the Bishop and the Cathedral are in Salisbury. The hospital wards are correctly named. Remoter parts of the District tend to trade more with Gillingham and Shaftesbury than with Warminster and Salisbury. You could find the Woolfonts pretty easily on an Ordnance Survey map.
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Evensong / int_21ef4ccd	type	Good Is Not Dumb
Evensong / int_21ef4ccd	comment	Good Is Not Dumb: In fact, you have to be pretty stupid to be evil in the Woolfonts. Especially when the good went to Oxford. If Senior Civil Servants and powerful politicians can't manage it, why would anyone else think they can?
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Evensong / int_21f60711	type	Good Is Not Soft
Evensong / int_21f60711	comment	Good Is Not Soft: So, punk, you want to cross the Duke, or, worse, yet, the Rector? Go ahead. Make their days. Except in matters of state, even the Duke bows to his Rector's authority on matters of ethics and morals. And the Rector is so nice, at that.
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Evensong / int_22f06704	type	Schedule Fanatic
Evensong / int_22f06704	comment	Schedule Fanatic: The Headmaster, for obvious reasons; and the Duke, as a matter of temperament.
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Evensong / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Evensong / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Only charity stays clerical plain-speaking, and even then, Fr Noel Paddick does eventually drive home some home truths to Snook the sexton. As for the Duke, and Lady Crispin, it's their default setting, though the Duke will suppress it for strategic reasons on occasion.
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Evensong / int_242f638e	type	Pastiche
Evensong / int_242f638e	comment	Pastiche: As it turns out, a historian moonlighting as a novelist can do a convincing job with a 16th Century wool-trader's letter, a magisterial pronouncement from Dr. Johnson, a letter from Addison to Steele, a forgotten elegy by Gray, and a waspish stanza from Alexander Pope.
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Evensong / int_24cdd048	type	Arcadia
Evensong / int_24cdd048	comment	Arcadia: With the "et ego" very much in one's face.
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Evensong / int_255cc9bd	type	Nephewism
Evensong / int_255cc9bd	comment	Nephewism: Zigzagged. The Duke is beset with nephews and a niece, but they are by no means second editions of him. And Noel, the widower, is a happy uncle â€¦ by a marriage which ended before the niece was conceived.
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Evensong / int_25a19aa5	type	Turn the Other Cheek
Evensong / int_25a19aa5	comment	Turn the Other Cheek: Lampshaded by the Rector, to whom it is obligatory.
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Evensong / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Evensong / int_26d1f65f	comment	Lampshaded when the Duke of Taunton is forever complaining that "nobody reads [Classic Author X] nowadays, what in buggery is the country coming to?"â€¦.
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Evensong / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Evensong / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Updated and with grit added, to Anthony Trollope, Barbara Pym, and Miss Read. With a touch of P. G. Wodehouse.
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Evensong / int_280333d4	type	Hollywood Heart Attack
Evensong / int_280333d4	comment	Hollywood Heart Attack: Averted The Duke has a very authentic one. In fact, a major case of Shown Their Work. The author acknowledges in the Afterword that he pestered his publishing partner and nonfiction co-author for details on what it actually feels like to have an infarct and a triple bypass. Which resulted in that co-author's then taking the information elicited and publishing a sardonic medical memoir of, yes, what it actually feels like to have an infarct and a triple bypass.
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Evensong / int_2809a15a	type	Old-School Chivalry
Evensong / int_2809a15a	comment	Old-School Chivalry: Lord Mallerstang, age-appropriately. The Duke has tendencies to this, but isn't fool enough to indulge them completely.
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Evensong / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Evensong / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Lord Crispin, of course.
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Evensong / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
Evensong / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: Witty fellow, the Duke.
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Evensong / int_29429eec	type	Community-Threatening Construction
Evensong / int_29429eec	comment	Community-Threatening Construction / Saving the Orphanage: The prospect of council housing in a scheduled "heritage" area in which even the sheds are Grade II or better.*
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Evensong / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Evensong / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Greek, Latin, French, Urdu, jurisprudential Arabic, Welsh.... Chock full, really.
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Evensong / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Evensong / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: For certain values of "haughty," Crispin as penitent, The Duke and Lady Crispin on Crispin's death, and Edmond after a serious quarrel with Sher and Teddy.
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Evensong / int_2b3e7d3e	type	Sketchy Successor
Evensong / int_2b3e7d3e	comment	Sketchy Successor: Crispin, naturally. Until he dies. And averting this is a trial to the Nawab, until he decides on Sher's father.
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Evensong / int_2b68b7fa	type	Sickeningly Sweethearts
Evensong / int_2b68b7fa	comment	Sickeningly Sweethearts / Make-Out Kids: Edmond and Teddy when on good terms, and all the more when making up. Emily Lane, poor woman, as Teddy's executive manager at The Woolford, has, as lampshaded, Iâ€™ve Seen Things, Man â€¦ You Haven't Seen What I've Seen....
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Evensong / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Evensong / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Everyone. Smarter or more powerful or less innocent or more nuanced than they look, and most of them have what they and only they refuse to consider a Dark and Troubled Past.
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Evensong / int_2df4fa08	type	Omniglot
Evensong / int_2df4fa08	comment	Omniglot: There's a reason the Duke was an Int Corps officer.
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Evensong / int_2e77c628	type	The Baby of the Bunch
Evensong / int_2e77c628	comment	The Baby of the Bunch: Literally, Hetty among the ducal family. Among "The Lads," sometimes Teddy, sometimes, despite not being chronologically the youngest, The Breener. It's the charm, in both cases, wot does it.
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Evensong / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Evensong / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Averted good and hard. The nearest we get is a debauched one, in his drinking and drugging days: Lord Crispin.
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Evensong / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Evensong / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: The Duke, Lady Crispin, the Duke of Trowbridge, Lord Breckland.... Truth in Television even today for the rich and aristocratic. Also true of the hard-training Rector, Fr Campion, Sher, Teddy, Edmond, and The Breener, and most of the sporty sorts. In fact, before the Rector came to the Woolfonts and while Sher was off the wagon, Sher and Kit Trowbridge hooked up, and Sher thought Kit was a decade younger than he in fact was.
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Evensong / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
Evensong / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: Points if you guessed the Duke. (And points mean prizes!) Partly subverted in that the Duke doesn't really realize why everyone else is acting so thick and pretending they can't keep up.
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Evensong / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Evensong / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Lampshaded in the Duke's remarks on nicknames, to Teddy. (Teddy at school was known as "Banging" Gates, being pansexual and a bit of a goer; whether this embarrassed him is another question.) The cricket-only nickname of "Tigger" for the Nawab is an apparent subversion, It's nothing to do with the Hundred Acre Wood, but comes from the nickname of "Tiger" borne by the great Indian Muslim cricketer, "Tiger" Pataudi, the 9th Nawab of Pataudi.
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Evensong / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Evensong / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Hetty as to certain members of her favorite boyband â€¦ and their local equivalents, particularly Sher and Noel. In which latter she is joined by nine in ten villagers, who don't see why they must remain a Chastity Couple. Everyone, literally, as to the Duke and Lady Lacy. Rupert as to James and Cats; James as to Rupert and "Bells," Elizabeth Arabella Caroline Grace Grenville-Arundell-Courtenay. Lady Crispin has other ideas as to suitable matches; the Duke â€¦ does not. And everyone expects and approves an eventual marriage between Hetty and Mark, Lord Grampound, heir to Lord Treskilling. Subverted as to Sher's sister Ameena and Cousin Tariq. Alam, Emily, and the Nawab are fine with it. Sher is having Big Brother Instinct reservations.
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Evensong / int_339b3062	type	Quintessential British Gentleman
Evensong / int_339b3062	comment	Quintessential British Gentleman: The straight, non-caricatured version. Applies to, for one, Alam Mirza, Sher's dad; and to Tom Douty. The Nawab and the Duke are too aristocratic to be gentlemen.
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Evensong / int_34f8042a	type	Gratuitous French
Evensong / int_34f8042a	comment	Gratuitous French: Bien sur. Although in the Jettous' case, it's not precisely gratuitous.
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Evensong / int_3545b7df	type	Proper Lady
Evensong / int_3545b7df	comment	Proper Lady: Lady Crispin, on the cusp of aging into being a Grande Dame. Subverted in that she can be absolutely ghastly to equals. But politely. And in fairness, she is a much-tried woman.
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Evensong / int_35474f36	type	Sliding Scale of Law Enforcement
Evensong / int_35474f36	comment	Sliding Scale of Law Enforcement: Largely positive, as to Da Chief and the local, rural bobbies. At worst, county-wide, occasionally ineffective and in one or two instances, owing to worries about possible ex-squaddie yobs moving in to any new social housing (they don't know it's retired Gurkhas), a Noble Bigot with a Badge.
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Evensong / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
Evensong / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: Fr Campion, that "Keble rugger-bugger called mysteriously to the cure of souls." And, so long as you behave yourself, Mr Kellow, landlord and Sole Prop. of the Blue Boar.
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Evensong	hasFeature	Evensong / int_36c64123
Evensong / int_3ae51e0	type	Resigned to the Call
Evensong / int_3ae51e0	comment	Resigned to the Call: The Duke honestly thinks he is. When he's the one ringing up. Largely to stave off...
Evensong / int_3ae51e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Evensong / int_3ae51e0	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_3b581a6	type	Forced Out of the Closet
Evensong / int_3b581a6	comment	Forced Out of the Closet: While playing in the Premier League, Edmond was outed one morning by the tabloids. That didn't end his career. The flagrant foul on him in the afternoon's city derby match, and the things pelted at him from the terraces, did. He holds a grudge the size of Wales.
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Evensong / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Evensong / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Did you guess His Grace the Duke of Taunton? Well done.
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Evensong / int_3f11ef74	featureConfidence	1.0
Evensong	hasFeature	Evensong / int_3f11ef74
Evensong / int_3fac55ce	type	Old-Fashioned Copper
Evensong / int_3fac55ce	comment	Old-Fashioned Copper: Sergeant Fay, and in fact the whole of Wiltshire Police (the Duke insists on continuing to call them the County Constabulary): of the Dixon Of Dock Green variety, mind you.
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Evensong / int_3fac55ce	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Evensong / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: If Charles, Duke of Taunton, likes you....
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Evensong / int_4023b8c8	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_402a598d	type	Standard Police Motto
Evensong / int_402a598d	comment	Standard Police Motto: Averted. The Wiltshire Police are "Primus et Optimus," first and best, and have been since 1839; the Duke sometimes has snarky comments on that when they don't do as he suggests.
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Evensong / int_42368755	type	Weather Report Opening
Evensong / int_42368755	comment	Weather Report Opening: The beginning of the second chapter, Psalm Preludes:
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Evensong / int_43702f21	type	Bear Hug
Evensong / int_43702f21	comment	Bear Hug: Teddy is a hugger. The Duke does not care for it.
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Evensong / int_43702f21	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Evensong / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: That's when the Duke is too angry to blow up. Say your prayers.
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Evensong / int_443b78cd	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_4441d947	type	The Storyteller
Evensong / int_4441d947	comment	The Storyteller: Fr Paddick in his sermons and homilies; the Duke and Lady Lacy and Den Farnaby as scholars; the Nawab on unexpected family history.
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Evensong / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
Evensong / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: Part of the Duke's method.
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Evensong / int_44cdd259	type	War Is Glorious
Evensong / int_44cdd259	comment	War Is Glorious: With War Is Hell: The Duke comes of a military family, and was a Major in the Intelligence Corps. He is moreover an historian. He holds both views.
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Evensong / int_4582ef5b	type	Ultimate Authority Mayor
Evensong / int_4582ef5b	comment	Ultimate Authority Mayor: Averted And the Duke takes the planning application fight far beyond the County and its councillors.
Evensong / int_4582ef5b	featureApplicability	-1.0
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Evensong / int_4587276e	type	All Elections Are Serious Business
Evensong / int_4587276e	comment	All Elections Are Serious Business: It's the runup to the 2015 General Election. Local councillors are auditioning to be Prospective Parliamentary Candidates for the next one. It makes the planning skulduggery a matter of life and death.
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Evensong / int_466ccbb4	type	Gayngst
Evensong / int_466ccbb4	comment	Gayngst: Defiantly averted. Even by Edmond.
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Evensong / int_466ccbb4	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Evensong / int_469e3e2f	comment	And the Duke is as he is because (In-Universe) Alec Clifton-Taylor was a friend of his mum's and Sir John Betjeman was one of his godfathers. He still has the stuffed bear to prove it, too.
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Evensong / int_477bc5c4	type	Go and Sin No More
Evensong / int_477bc5c4	comment	Go and Sin No More: Er. Would you believe the clergy are prone to this?
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Evensong / int_477bc5c4	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Evensong / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In-universe, the general judgment on Edmond, and, in many quarters, on the Duke.
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Evensong / int_4781adbb	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_47e9e5c6	type	Smart People Know Latin
Evensong / int_47e9e5c6	comment	Smart People Know Latin: They'd better, in the Woolfonts. Not only is the Duke a Classicist, Fr Paddick tends to quote the Fathers in the original.
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Evensong / int_47e9e5c6	featureConfidence	1.0
Evensong	hasFeature	Evensong / int_47e9e5c6
Evensong / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
Evensong / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Well, yes. Wolfdown (and its Dower House), Tidnock, Clentwood, Melverley, Luineag, Castle Camserney.... The Duke's a duke. As his is cousin the Duke of Trowbridge nearby at Littlecompte House. For that matter, even the rectories and vicarages were built in a more opulent age (mostly Georgian). And all of them lovingly described.
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Evensong / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
Evensong / int_48d9e12d	comment	Funetik Aksent: Largely avoided; justified as to The Breener, whose TMS and lecture circuit shtick this is and who lampshades it himself as his "Plastic Paddy charm" turn, and Mr Kellow down the Boar, who's spent so long playing the West Country publican the tourists expect that he is now incapable of not sounding like a Wurzel.
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Evensong / int_4971b851	type	Aggressive Categorism
Evensong / int_4971b851	comment	Aggressive Categorism: Edmond's besetting sin as an activist.
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Evensong / int_4971b851	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_498a6a21	type	Badass Teacher
Evensong / int_498a6a21	comment	Badass Teacher: The Headmaster of the Beechbourne Free School, Jeremy Trulock, was a subaltern. In the Paras. And the retiring Maths master isn't called "Sapper" Seymour for nothing, he having been a decorated Gunner officer. His replacement, "Banksy" Hesketh, is a recently retired Brigadier. There are very few discipline problems at the Free School.
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Evensong / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Evensong / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Pages of it. And,
Evensong / int_49d59be9	featureApplicability	1.0
Evensong / int_49d59be9	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
Evensong / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: The Duke and the Rector, notably. History and theology, respectively. Not coincidentally, the author's usual nonfiction co-author has written a book, solo, about early Methodism and the early United States. Fr Paddick has written a book about the Wesleys as Anglo-Catholics. Ahem. And they write history together when Wemyss isn't writing this series. The Duke being in some ways insufferable, this may count as Creator Career Self-Deprecation.
Evensong / int_49f6a9e4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Evensong / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Evensong / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: The Duke. Naturally.
Evensong / int_49fb5ccb	featureApplicability	1.0
Evensong / int_49fb5ccb	featureConfidence	1.0
Evensong	hasFeature	Evensong / int_49fb5ccb
Evensong / int_4a82a9d0	type	Big Band
Evensong / int_4a82a9d0	comment	Big Band: The Duke's point of contact with pop is Northern Soul. (Well, that and The Kinks.) He prefers swing to pop, and classical music to swing. The tenant's dance at Clentwood, his Worcestershire property, is however a Big Band extravaganza. He warns Sher that he'd best brush up his Basie: after all, the Duke must dance with the Cook at Clentwood, who is, after all, Mrs Woodside. But don't bother with Ellington: "too many dukes."
Evensong / int_4a82a9d0	featureApplicability	1.0
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Evensong / int_4f773434	type	Wise Beyond Their Years
Evensong / int_4f773434	comment	Wise Beyond Their Years: Rupe and Jamie, having been brought up by an uncle who's a duke, a historian, a cynic, and a Fellow of All Souls. And the Rector at his age has, as Fr Campion notes, no business having that Wise Old Priest's twinkle in his eye.
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Evensong / int_50756bd	type	Princely Young Man
Evensong / int_50756bd	comment	Princely Young Man: Crispin, in his untitled youth, and, on a humbler level, Teddy Gates at school and Edmond as footballer. Subverted as to Rupert and James, who are too decent and affable and downright, and Sher, who was too shy and introverted. Note that after Lord Crispin dies, Rupert does get a courtesy title as heir presumptive to his ducal uncle, and Sher has by the end of the volume become heir apparent to the heir presumptive to the Nawab.
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Evensong / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Evensong / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Sher and Noel are under considerable outside pressure, not to refrain but to do, and resolve their tension; there's the beginnings of adolescent tension between Hetty and Mark Grampound; and then there's the whole Duke-and-Lady-Lacy stramash....
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Evensong / int_50cc01e1	type	Do Not Call Me "Paul"
Evensong / int_50cc01e1	comment	Do Not Call Me "Paul": Quite literally in the case of Mr. (Paul) Viney, the Duke's butler. When the Duke addresses him as "Paul," it means he's speaking as churchwarden to churchwarden, or as captain of the District XI to his vice-captain. Relatedly, Dame Sarah Penruddock, who chairs the planning committee, insists on "Madam Chairwoman," as she is not a piece of furniture. There are those allowed and encouraged to call the Duke by his Christian name of "Charles." Old Etonians of his vintage call him "Tempers," as he was Lord Templecombe at school as his father's heir, as do fellow old Oxonians. Cross him, though, and it's "You call me 'Your Grace,' damn you." Likewise, old Eton and Oxford contemporaries call the Nawab, "Nobby." Only those on the Eton 1st XI and Oxford Authentics and Oxford Blues 1st Elevens were ever allowed to call him "Tigger." Almost no one calls him by his forename.
Evensong / int_50cc01e1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Evensong / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
Evensong / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Sher and Edmond. Partly because Noel's mere arrival shook up the group dynamic between Teddy, Sher, The Breener, and Edmond, and partly because Edmond is far too invested in his own vision of what Sher and Noel should do. They get better.
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Evensong / int_53b6ab6a	type	Jumped at the Call
Evensong / int_53b6ab6a	comment	Jumped at the Call: Well, keeps ringing it up, actually. The Duke honestly believes he'd rather have a quiet life; but a bored Duke is a dangerous Duke.
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Evensong / int_53b6ab6a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Evensong / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Also with Historical Fiction: Ohhh yeah. Sometimes in flashback chapters, sometimes in current ones as the archaeological team gets to work. Chalk horses, monastic foundations, market charters, Anglo-Saxon renamings of the landscape, Iron Age hillforts, the descent of local families, the names on the War Memorial, how the bakers in Beechbourne have held on since before Magna Carta. It's a pretty good and subtle course in English history even as it drives the plot. The Duke isn't about to allow development or uncontrolled social housing in the District. Having tame archaeologists find a new henge or another Roman villa would answer his purposes nicely.
Evensong / int_53c9fc92	featureApplicability	1.0
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Evensong / int_55bd649c	type	Boy Band
Evensong / int_55bd649c	comment	Boy Band: Niece Hetty is a Directioner. And the scratch group of singers for village concerts and charity recordings, "The Fonts," consisting of Edmond (who gave up showtunes for football and the closet), Teddy (who was In A Band at school), The Breener (Schola Cantorum at Downside with the future Mgr Folan), Fr Paddick (boy chorister who now, heh, heh, sings for his (ecclesiastical) living), and Sher (English and Music master at the Free School, organist, composer, M.Mus., ARCO, and with a diploma in Choir Directing), with the Duke as Basso Profundo, are regarded by Hetty as her boyband heroes ten or fifteen years on (bar her uncle the Duke). It's a Running Gag.
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Evensong / int_55ec42d7	type	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
Evensong / int_55ec42d7	comment	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Averted. The pastiches, and every Fictional Document, are done properly.
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Evensong / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Evensong / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: In a world of Good Shepherd and Retired Badass sorts, this will crop up.
Evensong / int_562abd51	featureApplicability	1.0
Evensong / int_562abd51	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_569a95e9	type	The Teetotaler
Evensong / int_569a95e9	comment	The Teetotaler: Well, there are British Muslims, and one of them a recovering alcoholic, so.... And Edmond, for the latter reason, as well.
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Evensong / int_57a9e2af	type	The Four Loves
Evensong / int_57a9e2af	comment	The Four Loves: The primary element in the narrativium.
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Evensong / int_57be3cd5	type	Anchored Ship
Evensong / int_57be3cd5	comment	Anchored Ship: Fr Paddick is a widower who never expected to experience same-sex attraction; but he is after all a priest of the Church of England, and has duties and principles. As does Sher Mirza, who is a devout Muslim, even though he is one who has long known himself to be bisexual and is completely in love with Fr Paddick.
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Evensong / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
Evensong / int_598513bb	comment	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Points if you guessed Crispin and the Duke.
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Evensong / int_598ad6e2	type	Even the Guys Want Him
Evensong / int_598ad6e2	comment	Even the Guys Want Him: Sher, of course. And to an almost equal extent, the Rector.
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Evensong / int_5a194444	type	But Not Too Bi
Evensong / int_5a194444	comment	But Not Too Bi: Averted. As long as no one does anything in the street to frighten the horses, it's simply a fact equivalent to hair color, and the story is unflinching in depicting bisexuals (and pansexuals, and gays, and lesbians) as being Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
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Evensong / int_5bddf95f	type	Talk About the Weather
Evensong / int_5bddf95f	comment	Talk About the Weather: They're British. In fairness, the weather of the period is appalling.
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Evensong / int_5be919ae	type	Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario
Evensong / int_5be919ae	comment	Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: Teddy and Edmond seem to thrive on these until they don't, and stop doing it. The resulting making-up has led too many friends and neighbors to see far too much.
Evensong / int_5be919ae	featureApplicability	1.0
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Evensong / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
Evensong / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: The Duke is not a quiet man by nature. (If he gets very quiet, run away.) But he can flatten trees when he erupts; as in his Heroic BSoD, or its first phase, after Crispin's funeral.
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Evensong / int_5d7cfc66	type	The Jeeves
Evensong / int_5d7cfc66	comment	The Jeeves: Mr Viney, although a butler rather than a valet.
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Evensong / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Evensong / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Between this book, the preceding volume, and the succeeding volume; and in a early chapters within the book.
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Evensong / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Evensong / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Brian "The Breener" Maguire. His wife the Hon. Gwen knows how he works it off and never gains an ounce, but of course doesn't tell. They're having twins, if that gives you hint.) Fr Paddick, who trains rigorously, tries to keep up with his housekeeper's mothering, but.... And Fr Campion, so recently a Keble rugger-bugger, can match The Breener at any table.
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Evensong / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Evensong / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: And at ease with his conscience: the reason Sher and the Rector are a Chastity Couple. In a twisted, subversive sort of way, the reason why Lord Crispin left his wife and children, too.
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Evensong / int_60c90bd5	type	Orphan's Ordeal
Evensong / int_60c90bd5	comment	Orphan's Ordeal: Subverted after Crispin dies with the ducal nephews and nieces, despite Lady Crispin's presence. All the other aspects are there: grief stages, finding a surrogate father figure, learning more than they cared to know about Crispin's past, and so on.
Evensong / int_60c90bd5	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Evensong / int_60c96f24	type	Portmantitle
Evensong / int_60c96f24	comment	Portmantitle: Also a One-Word Title, being just a compound word.
Evensong / int_60c96f24	featureApplicability	1.0
Evensong / int_60c96f24	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_60d73edb	type	Drink-Based Characterization
Evensong / int_60d73edb	comment	Drink-Based Characterization: It's The West Country. Duke or dustman, you'd best be able to hold your cider and your real ale. Otherwise, unto the very tea choices, let alone the wine, brandy, port, and whisky, it's all a matter of class and background. The Nawab, for obvious reasons, is apparently fond of dandelion-and-burdock.
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Evensong / int_62697dee	type	The Master
Evensong / int_62697dee	comment	The Master: Subverted and deconstructed. The heir presumptive (or any heir apparent, should there be one) to any peer with a title in the Scots peerage is The Master of X. In the Duke's case, The Master of Dilton. And Crispin's not evil. And when Crispin dies, the wholly admirable Rupert becomes a Scots "Master."
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Evensong / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Evensong / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Guess. In addition to the Duke, though, Lady Crispin wields one like an ax; Sher's is a dagger; and when the Rector goes all Church Militant... run and pray.
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Evensong / int_6306ceb6	type	Hat of Authority
Evensong / int_6306ceb6	comment	Hat of Authority: The local plods have these. And the bishop. But if you see athletic young men in cassocks and birettas or Canterbury caps, you'd best be on your best behavior. And though Teddy prefers headbands, being The Hipsta Chef, when he is wearing a toque blanche, he is very much Chef Gates, and don't you forget it.
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Evensong / int_63a200ae	type	Smoky Gentlemen's Club
Evensong / int_63a200ae	comment	Smoky Gentlemen's Club: Inevitably, the Duke belongs to a good few, as his biographical entry (another Fictional Document) attests:
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Evensong / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Evensong / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: Well, readers are.... You're expected to keep up when there's a sly reference to Betjeman or Eliot or Kipling or British history or Anglican infighting or sub-Roman archaeology. And there will be. On every page. It's not mandatory, but it doubles the number of jokes.
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Evensong / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Evensong / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: At Crispin's wake and funeral, the duke's nephews and others are allowed these. Not the Duke, though. Stiff Upper Lip, you know. Until his Heroic BSoD.
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Evensong / int_66cd7408	type	SchoolMarm
Evensong / int_66cd7408	comment	School Marm: Miss Coombs and Miss Woolley of the village school.
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Evensong / int_67a90462	type	Experimental Archeology
Evensong / int_67a90462	comment	Experimental Archeology: The archaeological team are quite comfortable with it. Some of them knap flint for fun.
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Evensong / int_68cf9795	type	Ironic Nickname
Evensong / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname: The Nawab is not notably a bouncy Tigger.
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Evensong / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Evensong / int_69681e01	comment	Subverted as to Sher's sister Ameena and Cousin Tariq. Alam, Emily, and the Nawab are fine with it. Sher is having Big Brother Instinct reservations.
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Evensong / int_6a2c358d	type	A Death in the Limelight
Evensong / int_6a2c358d	comment	A Death in the Limelight: The Duke's brother.
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Evensong / int_6ad19559	type	Wine Is Classy
Evensong / int_6ad19559	comment	Wine Is Classy: And the ducal cellars are select and extensive.
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Evensong / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
Evensong / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Because it's Truth in Television and this is a determinedly realistic series. The Maguire Twins arrive not long after Lord Crispin's death and funeral.
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Evensong / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Evensong / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The Mirza Khans are Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Sher Mirza is leonine (Sher) and princely (Mirza). The Rector is Fr Noel Paddick (lampshaded by Dr Jettou, who jokingly calls him "PÃ¨re NoÃ«l." Come to think of it, Edmond â€“ so spelled due to a refugee Belgian ancestress in 1914 â€“ may have an avatar in The Chronicles of Narnia.... The House of Fitzjames are Dukes of Taunton. They were elevated to a dukedom and given Taunton as that title when James II saw off the first Duke's half-brother's coup attempt, the Monmouth Rebellion. Monmouth had proclaimed himself in Somerset. Guess where. The Nawab points this out to Sher and Noel. And then there are Lady Agatha's Prothero-Fanes. The Christian names of Noel's parents are the same as those of Noel's bishop and the bishop's wife. Of course, like G. K. Chesterton, Noel regards coincidences as "spiritual puns." Nor can one forget the scheming County councillors: Budge; Bugg; and "Chuck it" Smith. The Duke quotes Chesterton on the latter.
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Evensong / int_6c3f8ca8	type	Drama Queen
Evensong / int_6c3f8ca8	comment	Drama Queen: Edmond. Sher has a strong tendency that way as well, and so, in a frightfully aristocratic way, does Lady Crispin on occasion, usually to try (try) to manipulate her children.
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Evensong / int_6e0a57d6	type	Like an Old Married Couple
Evensong / int_6e0a57d6	comment	Like an Old Married Couple: Sher and Edmond, the Duke and Lady Crispin, the Duke and the Bishop, the Duke and the Nawab.... Are you seeing a pattern here?
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Evensong / int_6e70b12b	type	Nominal Importance
Evensong / int_6e70b12b	comment	Nominal Importance: Less averted than utterly disregarded and stomped on viciously.
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Evensong / int_7130202a	type	Jewish Mother
Evensong / int_7130202a	comment	Jewish Mother: Averted as to Melanie Salmon. Ironically applies to Sher's aunt the Begum.
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Evensong / int_714741cc	type	Like Reality, Unless Noted
Evensong / int_714741cc	comment	Like Reality, Unless Noted: Very much front and center. Real time real world events are incorporated throughout, and realism is the keynote.
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Evensong / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Evensong / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Edmond, when he chooses, or wishes to be all In Your Face.
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Evensong / int_735dd172	type	Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl
Evensong / int_735dd172	comment	Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Same-sex (and chastely celibate) version with Sher and Noel. Sher does tend to work the Tortured Artist vibe at times. May, if Ship Tease were ever true, become something of the same thing for the Duke and Millicent Lacy.
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Evensong / int_735e71c2	type	Recursive Canon
Evensong / int_735e71c2	comment	Recursive Canon: No, not any of the C of E clergy. But the history of the Ford family bakery in Beechbourne is introduced by the Duke's telling Teddy he must never compete with them, and ends with the Duke answering, "Why not?," by starting the history of ... the Ford family bakery in Beechbourne.
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Evensong / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
Evensong / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: As noted. And plenty more: Jazz, Jules, Googly, Swaffles, Kit.... The Archdeacon had the misfortune to go through prepper, Eton, and Oxford with the Duke, who continues to call him, "Flops."
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Evensong / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Evensong / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: Variations on, "In country districts, it isn't what is known, it's what is said." And, "Water wears away stone at last." As the preceding volume had an arson in it and this volume has baptismal imagery, baptisms, floods, and the blessing of a new fire engine, one suspects that an elemental theme may be emerging.
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Evensong / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
Evensong / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: The Breener and the Hon. Gwen, the Duke, the clergy; and, with clear eyes and stern principles, Old Miss Hart at the sweet shop. Sher and the Headmaster are fair, just, and kind to their pupils, but they've been teaching too long to fall for this trope.
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Evensong / int_76f0d7a5	type	Historical Fiction
Evensong / int_76f0d7a5	comment	Historical Fiction: Ohhh yeah. Sometimes in flashback chapters, sometimes in current ones as the archaeological team gets to work. Chalk horses, monastic foundations, market charters, Anglo-Saxon renamings of the landscape, Iron Age hillforts, the descent of local families, the names on the War Memorial, how the bakers in Beechbourne have held on since before Magna Carta. It's a pretty good and subtle course in English history even as it drives the plot. The Duke isn't about to allow development or uncontrolled social housing in the District. Having tame archaeologists find a new henge or another Roman villa would answer his purposes nicely.
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Evensong / int_77d826c7	type	Stern Teacher
Evensong / int_77d826c7	comment	Stern Teacher: Sher can be. The Headmaster is.
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Evensong / int_78410584	type	She Is Not My Girlfriend
Evensong / int_78410584	comment	She Is Not My Girlfriend: James as regards "Cats" (Catherine Lettice Georgiana Carew-Fettiplace-Bourchier-Poyntz), Brigadier Lord Maynooth's niece.
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Evensong / int_7881f335	type	Chekhov's Armoury
Evensong / int_7881f335	comment	Chekhov's Armoury: Is very well-stocked. It's a safe bet that, by the end or, better, in a book or two, yer actual Cow Tools will turn out to be part of the arsenal.
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Evensong / int_79f9249	type	Horrifying the Horror
Evensong / int_79f9249	comment	Horrifying the Horror: There are foreign governments and terrorist organizations, let alone domestic governments and civil servants, who are afraid of the Duke.
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Evensong / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
Evensong / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: Lord Mallerstang; the Duke, when young; Lady Crispin (which is why she married Lord Crispin), as she says quite frankly:
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Evensong / int_7a08e8d1	type	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
Evensong / int_7a08e8d1	comment	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Cross the Duke, and it's, "You call me, 'Your Grace';" and unless you are a very senior member of the ducal family, it's Mister Viney to you.
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Evensong / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
Evensong / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: The first named and individual Americans in the series appear in this volume: Mixed examples, tending strongly towards Type I. One is a retired US diplomat who's a Maryland Steuart on one side and an FFV on the other, and quietly attends Crispin's funeral. The other, who gets a whole Short Story chapter, is Lucille Vincent, widow of Cordman T. Vincent IV: a perfectly nice PBS-supporting, English-ancestor-hunting, guidebook-reading, New York Times-subscribing lady of a certain age who comes in for only the gentlest and most unspoken teasing. She gets a narrative comparison and Shout-Out to the sort of American abroad Henry James tended to trade in. But, as she mistakes the Rector, who's in gardening kit and doing the jobs Snook the Sexton won't do, for a sexy working man, and in any case thinks he is the sexton and mentions him as such to Fr Campion, it sets up the payoff, another Shout-Out: after she leaves, Fr C finds his Rector weeding the churchyard, determines that he never told the Widow Vincent who he was before sending her to consult Fr C, and â€¦ The Duke, who spent a few long vacs in the US when his father the Brigadier, before succeeding as duke, was liaising, is on record as "liking the sort of [Type I] Americans the Guardian loathes, and contrariwise."
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Evensong / int_7cfeef98	type	Narrative Filigree
Evensong / int_7cfeef98	comment	Narrative Filigree: Oh, oodles. Mind you, it tends to be camouflage for Chekhov's Armoury.
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Evensong / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
Evensong / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: With Hollywood History: Averted, quite forcibly. There's plenty of history still affecting the architecture, the villages, and the mindsets of the characters, but it's not sanitized. Including ...
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Evensong / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Evensong / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Crisp â€“ wait for it â€“ in.
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Evensong / int_7f6a0b31	type	All Jews Are Ashkenazi
Evensong / int_7f6a0b31	comment	All Jews Are Ashkenazi: Averted. The Salmons are not solely Ashkenazim. (Lampshaded far more explicitly still in The Day Thou Gavest.)
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Evensong / int_8077793f	type	Open Secret
Evensong / int_8077793f	comment	Open Secret: "In country districts, it isn't what is known, it's what is said."
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Evensong / int_83a30cd3	type	Middle Child Syndrome
Evensong / int_83a30cd3	comment	Middle Child Syndrome: Crispin's children are, in birth order, Rupert, James, and Henrietta Maria. Jamie is at some pains to avert this trope.
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Evensong / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
Evensong / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Almost every gay (or non-het) character is this. Including Edmond unless he decides to camp it for his own purposes. Yeates the first footman is so much so he finds it hard to pull on holidays away, as he has to first assure the other man that, no, he's not experimenting, and, no, he's not going to have a Big Gay Freakout after doing the deed.
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Evensong / int_842426f3	type	Grande Dame
Evensong / int_842426f3	comment	Grande Dame: Lady Crispin is getting there as she ages into it; as is the Begum. Lady Agatha and Flora, Dowager of Freuchie, and the late Lady Douty, are or were there already and out the other side.
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Evensong / int_853df68b	type	Rail Enthusiast
Evensong / int_853df68b	comment	Rail Enthusiast: The Duke has a number of anorakish and unexpected hobbies: canals, archaeology, music hall, Northern Soul.... But railways are by far to the fore. He has a scale model of Brunel's GWR, and, now, of the restored Woolfonts & Chickmarsh (steam) Railway, in the Brunel Room at Wolfdown. Most everyone in the Woolfonts has been infected with this madness. The excuse for the Duke's beckoning the Rector's family down was to help with the W&CR; Sir Thomas Douty is co-chairman with the Duke in the railway trust; and so it goes. Subverted a bit in that the Duke's nephew James, being a rower, came down instead with a raging case of canal enthusiast anorakism.
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Evensong / int_86025d8f	type	Irish Priest
Evensong / int_86025d8f	comment	Irish Priest: Zigzagged. Mgr Folan is Irish by descent, but his family's been in Beechbourne since the first drove of Irish pigs went to the Harris Bacon Factory in Calne.
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Evensong / int_860addab	type	Royalties Heir
Evensong / int_860addab	comment	Royalties Heir: Subverted as to the Duke and his family (who are after all descended of Stuart royalty). On the one hand, what pays for all the lands is owning land which has industry on it (including bits of the Thames Gateway) or is London residential property. On the other, in addition to having acquired over the centuries a shipping line and so on, they, and the Maynooths of Calverstown House, make and sell single-malt Scotch from Camserney and Irish whiskey at Calverstown, priced in guineas. And have down since before excise was invented, as a result of a medieval fascination with alchemy. So the distilling recipes and formulae might well count.
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Evensong / int_8637b8ef	type	All Gays Love Theater
Evensong / int_8637b8ef	comment	All Gays Love Theater: Averted, subverted, and lampshaded. Teddy and Edmond named their Clumber spaniel bitches (gifts from the Duke) after Diana Dors and Dame Vera Lynn; the Duke was simply thankful they weren't called "Brighton and Hove." Edmond, though, having spent years in the closet as a footballer despite having always been in fact interested in music, theater, and musical theater, does tend nowadays to go all out and camp it when he feels the urge.
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Evensong / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Evensong / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Everyone gets one. Especially the Duke: The Nawab pegs level with the Duke: And Fr Noel Paddick SSC gets one in for the whole of the Church of England, or at least its Anglo-Catholic, Alternative Episcopal Oversight wing:
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Evensong / int_86bb7d97	type	Cultured Badass
Evensong / int_86bb7d97	comment	Cultured Badass: The Breener; the clergy; and the Duke, now that he's retired from being a...
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Evensong / int_87629455	type	No Communities Were Harmed
Evensong / int_87629455	comment	No Communities Were Harmed: Mm. Combined with Real-Place Background as to, oh, Salisbury and Shaftesbury, it's fairly clear that the Woolfonts are not a million miles from the Teffonts.
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Evensong / int_88472ef3	type	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life
Evensong / int_88472ef3	comment	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: The Duke, who gets bored easily as a bachelor. And, since becoming a widower, Sir Thomas Douty. This fact has resulted in the restored heritage railway, the community real ale brewery, and a number of other projects on which Sir Tom and the Duke have been the driving forces. Edmond has more than a touch of this â€“ lampshaded by Fr Paddick, to Teddy â€“ in his activism, his football career having been cut short in his prime. Edmond's career until he was injured (by homophobes. Specifically, the terraces, while laid out by a flagrant foul) was: Halifax Town; Leeds United; Hull FC; Manchester City. He holds a grudge. Against Man Utd and their supporters.
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Evensong / int_887d6d58	type	Hipster
Evensong / int_887d6d58	comment	Hipster: Subverted. Teddy was dubbed, early on, "The Hipster Chef," and has never gotten over it, even though it was never really true. Which is incredibly un-hip.
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Evensong	hasFeature	Evensong / int_887d6d58
Evensong / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
Evensong / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: Zigzagged. Lady Crispin finds her children all to be too much like their father and their uncle. But at least Hetty is a girl, and the baby.
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Evensong / int_88933ad4	featureConfidence	1.0
Evensong	hasFeature	Evensong / int_88933ad4
Evensong / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
Evensong / int_88a97dd4	comment	Stiff Upper Lip: The whole of the ducal family. All the Mirzas. Most of the clergy, for theological reasons. Edmond â€¦ not necessarily.
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Evensong / int_88a97dd4	featureConfidence	1.0
Evensong	hasFeature	Evensong / int_88a97dd4
Evensong / int_89283763	type	Insatiable Newlyweds
Evensong / int_89283763	comment	Insatiable Newlyweds: And since: Edmond and Teddy.
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Evensong / int_89283763	featureConfidence	1.0
Evensong	hasFeature	Evensong / int_89283763
Evensong / int_89975510	type	Everyone Is Christian at Christmas
Evensong / int_89975510	comment	Everyone Is Christian at Christmas: Averted. Remembrance Sunday is another matter.
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Evensong / int_89975510	featureConfidence	1.0
Evensong	hasFeature	Evensong / int_89975510
Evensong / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Evensong / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: The ducal Bristols. And the Rovers, kitted out as shooting brakes, which he hands out to all the local clergy of every faith and denomination so they need never miss a deathbed whatever the weather.
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Evensong	hasFeature	Evensong / int_8a295a46
Evensong / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Evensong / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: Flashbacks and interspersed short-story chapters make it so, reaching back to the Neolithic.
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Evensong / int_8b6e8d7	featureConfidence	1.0
Evensong	hasFeature	Evensong / int_8b6e8d7
Evensong / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
Evensong / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Guy: The Nawab. All of the ex-Forces sorts. And of course, when the Duke gets his crafty way on the social housing, the new residents qualify: they are after all retired Gurkhas..
Evensong / int_8c1ad82f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Evensong / int_8c8de1b8	type	Renaissance Music
Evensong / int_8c8de1b8	comment	Renaissance Music: Because it can't all be Walton, Sumsion, and Ralph Vaughan Williams at every service.
Evensong / int_8c8de1b8	featureApplicability	1.0
Evensong / int_8c8de1b8	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_8e92e125	type	Lawyer-Friendly Cameo
Evensong / int_8e92e125	comment	The PM and the Chancellor are not named. In the circumstances, that would be a decidedly unfriendly Lawyer-Friendly Cameo.
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Evensong / int_8e92e125	featureConfidence	1.0
Evensong	hasFeature	Evensong / int_8e92e125
Evensong / int_958f1f57	type	Maiden Aunt
Evensong / int_958f1f57	comment	Maiden Aunt: Lady Agatha. To everyone. No matter how they kick and scream. Emily Lane at The Woolford acts as one to Teddy-and-Edmond and to all the staff; Rose James, the Rectory housekeeper, acts as one universally, but especially to Sher and Noel.
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Evensong / int_95e7be81	type	Rich Boredom
Evensong / int_95e7be81	comment	Rich Boredom: As Sir Thomas Douty observes,
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Evensong / int_95e7be81	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Evensong / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Averted and lampshaded â€“ as to the current lot. The second Duke was, however, a complete bastard. The current Duke however has no illusions about his class and family, in which he is something of a sport. They're not evil, but they are, as the Duke reflects:
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Evensong / int_97d79b7f	type	Kindly Vet
Evensong / int_97d79b7f	comment	Kindly Vet: Mr Giles Trulock FRCVS, brother to the Headmaster.
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Evensong / int_97d79b7f	featureConfidence	1.0
Evensong	hasFeature	Evensong / int_97d79b7f
Evensong / int_99390db0	type	Saintly Church
Evensong / int_99390db0	comment	Saintly Church: In the books, the C of E; Dr Jettou's masjid in Trowbridge; the Roman Catholic Church; the Nonconformists; Judaism; Sikhism; Nepali Hinduism-with-Buddhist-accretions as followed by Retired Gurkhas; and, for that matter, humanism, agnosticism, irreligion, and atheism. So long as the believers therein observe the Spirit and Laws of Cricket, which may be the real religion for them all.
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Evensong / int_99390db0	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_99b2613a	type	Oop North
Evensong / int_99b2613a	comment	Oop North: Every member of the Five-Man Band save The Breener (if you count the West Midlands, for Father Noel Paddick, as the North â€“ which it is by West Country standards). A certain amount of mild, Comedy of Manners Hilarity Ensues.
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Evensong / int_99b2613a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_99e14f05	type	All-Loving Hero
Evensong / int_99e14f05	comment	All-Loving Hero: Father Paddick. In time, perhaps even more so, Father Bohun.
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Evensong / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Evensong / int_9ae85487	comment	Dr. Jerk: Dr Emily Witchard's bedside manner is â€¦ bracing. And dispenses with pleasantries.
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Evensong / int_9ae85487	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Evensong / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: The villagers, members of the extended ducal family, servants, the servants and tenants at the duke's other holdings, water-bailiffs, solicitors: a good chunk of the Cast of Thousands get page-time, though not to anything like the extent they do in the succeeding volume.
Evensong / int_9c8701b5	featureApplicability	1.0
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Evensong / int_9da6354b	type	Reality Has No Subtitles
Evensong / int_9da6354b	comment	Reality Has No Subtitles: Fortunately, for the obscurer bits, there are running translations.
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Evensong / int_9e1548b4	type	Old Retainer
Evensong / int_9e1548b4	comment	Old Retainer: The Wolfdown staff and all ducal servants are close; Rose James at the Rectory though is absolutely this.
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Evensong / int_9e1548b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Evensong	hasFeature	Evensong / int_9e1548b4
Evensong / int_9fbe06a5	type	Badass in a Nice Suit
Evensong / int_9fbe06a5	comment	Badass in a Nice Suit: The Duke's tailors are to be congratulated. And of course the clergy wear cassocks and choir dress and vestments....
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Evensong / int_9fbe06a5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_9fbf92c3	type	Creator Career Self-Deprecation
Evensong / int_9fbf92c3	comment	The Duke being in some ways insufferable, this may count as Creator Career Self-Deprecation.
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Evensong / int_9fbf92c3	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_a059270	type	Gratuitous Greek
Evensong / int_a059270	comment	Gratuitous Greek: Theologians, check; Old Etonians, check... And the Duke persuades Sher to compose variations on the music for the Seikilos Epitaph â€“ after translating it sarcastically.
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Evensong / int_a059270	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_a16d511d	type	Insecure Love Interest
Evensong / int_a16d511d	comment	Insecure Love Interest: The Duke, if Professor the Baroness Lacy is in fact interested, as she seems to be.
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Evensong / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
Evensong / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: The Duke is always this. The Rector sees, raises, and calls, with a full house.
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Evensong / int_a448674	type	Gratuitous Latin
Evensong / int_a448674	comment	Gratuitous Latin: Inscriptions on church bells; memorials; monuments; any old Fictional Document; the names of the villages.... And of course the C of E clergy know Latin (and Greek, and Hebrew), as, obviously, does the RC padre in Beechbourne, Monsignor Folan; and the Duke is a Classicist, being an Eton-and-Oxford man of the old breed.
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Evensong / int_a4be7043	type	Da Chief
Evensong / int_a4be7043	comment	Da Chief: The Police and Crime Commissioner, Lachlan Duff-Black, and the Chief Constable, Tommy Labourde. It's their cross to bear that Wiltshire is full of peers, and that in a goodish bit of West Wilts, the local, ducal proprietor thinks he's Batman.
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Evensong / int_a53be897	type	The Cavalier Years
Evensong / int_a53be897	comment	The Cavalier Years: An oft-referenced part of the backstory, and still affecting village relationships unto this day. Obviously a considerable element in the Fitzjames history.
Evensong / int_a53be897	featureApplicability	1.0
Evensong / int_a53be897	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_a5b12e14	type	Commitment Issues
Evensong / int_a5b12e14	comment	Commitment Issues: The Duke. When his father was an Impoverished Patrician and comparatively broke brigadier, the future Duke could not get a date. When he suddenly became a courtesy marquess, heir to a dukedom, and rolling in money.... He donned the Jade-Colored Glasses and has yet to doff them.
Evensong / int_a5b12e14	featureApplicability	1.0
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Evensong / int_a632f7fa	type	Cool Train
Evensong / int_a632f7fa	comment	Cool Train: The rolling stock, and particularly the locomotives, of the Woolfonts & Chickmarsh Railway in the Village Tales series are these: traditional-seeming steam â€¦ which His Grace the Duke of Taunton got designed by the Swiss at DLM â€¦ with contributions from James Dyson, Phil Girdlestone, and James May.
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Evensong / int_a63f45d5	type	Cool Uncle
Evensong / int_a63f45d5	comment	Cool Uncle: The Nawab to Sher. The Duke to everyone.
Evensong / int_a63f45d5	featureApplicability	1.0
Evensong / int_a63f45d5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Evensong / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The planning permission / social housing dogfight; and, all the more, Crispin's unexpurgated memoirs.
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Evensong / int_a6c69bd	featureConfidence	1.0
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Evensong / int_a6ff7243	type	Hates Being Touched
Evensong / int_a6ff7243	comment	Hates Being Touched: Survey says... And that, mind you, as they are preparing for Lord Crispin's funeral.
Evensong / int_a6ff7243	featureApplicability	1.0
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Evensong / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Evensong / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Henrietta Maria is simply Hetty, to everyone.
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Evensong / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
Evensong / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: Edmond, all too often.
Evensong / int_a861560f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Evensong / int_a863ef67	type	Cultured Warrior
Evensong / int_a863ef67	comment	Cultured Warrior: The Duke was, after all, an Intelligence Corps officer who preferred close OPINT support in the field, attached to Combat Arms, over "faffing about with maps at Brigade." Of course, he is a...
Evensong / int_a863ef67	featureApplicability	1.0
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Evensong / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
Evensong / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: Averted good and hard. Monsignor Folan, of Our Lady and S Edith of Wilton in Beechbourne, has a (smallish) congregation; there are Nonconformists in plenty; but so far as there is any active Christianity in the District, it is, as By Law Established, by far predominately Church of England.
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Evensong / int_a8adc5a0	type	Like a Son to Me
Evensong / int_a8adc5a0	comment	Like a Son to Me: The Duke, obviously, to his nephews (and, with the necessary flip, his niece); but also the Duke to The Breener, Teddy, Sher, the Rector, and even, exasperatedly, Edmond. The Nawab lampshades this to the Duke's face. Equally true of the Nawab to Sher, Hugo Mallerstang to Rupert and James, and the higher clergy to Noel. As the Bishop lost a son early on, and Lord Mallerstang lost both sons and heirs to enemy action, this means a good deal. And ex officio true of all the clergy to all the parishes.
Evensong / int_a8adc5a0	featureApplicability	1.0
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Evensong / int_a929d574	type	Doctor's Orders
Evensong / int_a929d574	comment	Doctor's Orders: Which the Duke is under after his heart attack and triple bypass and which the Rector is under after his Roemheld-Techlenburg-Ceconi-Syndrome is diagnosed.
Evensong / int_a929d574	featureApplicability	1.0
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Evensong / int_a9645365	type	Man Hug
Evensong / int_a9645365	comment	Man Hug: Teddy hands these out like sweets. The Duke doesn't care for them. Subverted when Edmond apologizes to and reconciles with Sher, they exchange hugs absolute, and Noel wraps them both in a bear hug and blesses them.
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Evensong / int_abe4d7b	type	Blue Blood
Evensong / int_abe4d7b	comment	Blue Blood: Well, obviously. The Duke, his family, his sister-in-law, Hugo Mallerstang, Sir Thomas Douty, Professor Millicent Lacy (a life peeress, but a Lacy by birth), and indeed Fr Bohun.
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Evensong / int_ac7471b0	type	The Dead Have Names
Evensong / int_ac7471b0	comment	The Dead Have Names: And will be given those names, and not forgotten.
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Evensong / int_acf8f71a	type	Dispense with the Pleasantries
Evensong / int_acf8f71a	comment	Dispense with the Pleasantries: The Duke's default setting save with Royalty or his social inferiors. If he becomes suddenly affable, have your affairs in order.
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Evensong / int_aff1ee2e	type	Small Reference Pools
Evensong / int_aff1ee2e	comment	Small Reference Pools: Averted Although subverted and lampshaded in-universe as regards one particular threat of crime against which the Duke seeks to mobilize the police, though his failure to do so is his own fault:
Evensong / int_aff1ee2e	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Evensong / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
Evensong / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: The Duke and Edmond both fall prey to this at times.
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Evensong / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Evensong / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Where to begin? Scholars take pot-shots at other scholars. The Duke hates and denounces all parties and most politicians, and the whole of the Civil Service, equally, and says so in distinctly bald terms. The Nawab regards the Pakistani government with contempt. And planning committee chairwoman Dame Sarah Penruddocke says, at the public session, that she must explain the procedure very carefully, as that lady novelist has given the public a perverted idea of how planning applications are decided. Although anyone who reads his nonfiction has a fair idea of the author's views, he goes out of his way to give some of the best lines to the Other Side.
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Evensong / int_b75b35ac	type	Forgiveness
Evensong / int_b75b35ac	comment	Forgiveness: The clergy are good at this â€“ if penitence and amendment of life precedes it. Other people, not so much.
Evensong / int_b75b35ac	featureApplicability	1.0
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Evensong / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Evensong / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Lady Crispin, when not icy. Subverted as to Mgr Folan.
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Evensong / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Evensong / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Edmond is working to curb that tendency. With mixed success.
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Evensong / int_bbd8d3f4	type	Adventurer Archaeologist
Evensong / int_bbd8d3f4	comment	Adventurer Archaeologist: Averted. The archaeological team led by Professor the Baroness Lacy and Professor Dennis Farnaby are strictly methodical and play by the rules.
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Evensong / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Evensong / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: The Breener, though he'll never admit the "genius" part. A man who kept wicket for England, Misses Nothing.
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Evensong / int_bd2d0153	type	Theme and Variations
Evensong / int_bd2d0153	comment	Theme and Variations: On the Seikilos skolion, as composed by Sher.
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Evensong / int_bda2a088	type	Did They or Didn't They?
Evensong / int_bda2a088	comment	Did They or Didn't They?: There's a morning conversation between Sher and the Rector along the lines of "this can't happen again" and "my bum hurts" â€¦ and a quick pan-out to its being a phone conversation, not in bed. It reads at first like a Ship Tease, not to say gay-baiting, until it's revealed as having been the result of the Rector's having fallen on top of Sher on some loose scree in a ramble led by the Duke â€¦ and (check your guns at the door, Mr. Chekhov) sets up the Rector's increasing balance problems as a symptom of his Roemheld-Techlenburg-Ceconi-Syndrome, a major plot point. So: no, they didn't. To the in-universe disappointment of most.
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Evensong / int_bec25788	type	Rugged Scar
Evensong / int_bec25788	comment	Rugged Scar: After his heart attack and bypass, the Duke is even less inclined to wear open collars.
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Evensong / int_c00afbbd	type	With Due Respect
Evensong / int_c00afbbd	comment	With Due Respect: Proems to run away from really fast. Particularly if the speaker is the Duke. Or Edmond. A fair few fly from all quarters at the planning application hearing.
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Evensong / int_c2327882	type	Regular Caller
Evensong / int_c2327882	comment	Regular Caller: Mr Viney is probably tired of telling His Grace that a crisis has just rung up. Then again, crises are probably afraid to answer the phone for fear the Duke has become bored, and rung them up.
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Evensong / int_c2c92862	type	Unwanted Spouse
Evensong / int_c2c92862	comment	Unwanted Spouse: Lord Crispin and Lady Crispin to one another.
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Evensong / int_c301532f	type	Forgiven, but Not Forgotten
Evensong / int_c301532f	comment	Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: The Duke may forgive. He does not forget. Fr Paddick and all the clergy forgive and forget. Sher and Edmond essentially do neither, though they try as to their friends. Lady Crispin flatly does neither. Ever.
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Evensong / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Evensong / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The whole lot of them.
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Evensong / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
Evensong / int_c32ff031	comment	Xanatos Gambit: The Duke's method at all times. HERE BE A SPOILER: By the time the Duke's done, 1, Teddy's pledge has been redeemed. There is social housing in the ward. For retired Gurkhas. 2, Built by wounded and demobbed soldiers. 3, And the Trust for all this is run by a British Asian, opposing whom is bad politics: Sher's father. 4, Who has had to move down with his family from Leeds, so that Sher's mum can spoil Sher. 5, There will never be any further development in the Woolfonts: not after the archaeological reports are in. 6, And the ecological reports: which also force the Environment Agency to do a U-turn on dredging, and thus prevent further floods. 7, And the cross-party stitch-up against Teddy means that the three scheming councillors will never get to Westminster. 8, The Duke's got the adjoining parishes put in the Woolfonts benefice; 9, requiring that Noel get two further curates and be made a canon, and 10, he's managed to tie the Nawab into his plans as well as 11 got the Nawab to make Alam Mirza and then Sher his successors; 11, he's passed on Crispin's memoirs to the only three trustworthy Privy Counsellors or Counsellors of State in the UK, to use against all enemies â€¦ and kept copies of useful revelations. And, 12, incidentally, the Duke has got Hugo Mallerstang's estate back for him. After sixty years. From the National Trust.
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Evensong / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Evensong / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Fr Paddick, Fr Bohun, the Duke, the Headmaster, Brigadier the Earl of Maynooth, the Duke's late parents â€¦ actually, most of the badasses are learned. And vice-versa.
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Evensong / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Evensong / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Even in the midst of bitter quarrels â€“ Sher and Edmond, say â€“ if an outside threat appears, well....
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Evensong / int_c389390e	type	Opera
Evensong / int_c389390e	comment	Opera: While cutting a charity appeal CD, the Duke, being a Basso Profundo, sings a few lines of Sarastro's "In diesen heil'gen Hallen" to, or at, Edmond after Edmond has to apologize for yet another tantrum. Teddy reminds Edmond that he's lucky it wasn't the Commendatore in "Don Giovanni": "Don Giovanni! A cenar teco m'invitasti â€¦ e son venuto." And in a nice bit of foreshadowing, the Duke says coolly he's saving that in case his brother Crispin ever comes back home.
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Evensong / int_c39e4218	type	R&B
Evensong / int_c39e4218	comment	R&B: Hellllooo, high-note-singing, Hot Teacher, Cool Teacher, Mr. Fanservice, Even the Guys Want Him Sher. And for old school, there's the Rector singing Jackie Wilson at Village Concerts.
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Evensong / int_c3cb84e2	type	Simple, yet Opulent
Evensong / int_c3cb84e2	comment	Simple, yet Opulent: The Duke â€“ having started (the title was in abeyance and the land and cash in trust until his father was middle-aged) as an Impoverished Patrician who could only dream of being Land Poor â€“ is this in his personal style. When it comes to handing out dosh to others, though, he's very much the Eccentric Millionaire.
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Evensong / int_c4942576	type	Cunning Linguist
Evensong / int_c4942576	comment	Cunning Linguist: â€¦ is the Duke. To Omniglot levels. So, for obvious reasons, are the Nawab and Dr Jettou, the local imam (French, English, Arabic, Darija, and Rifian Berber). And the clergy and the gentry all have Latin, Greek, French, and/or German to hand. Teddy, having trained as a chef in France, is bilingual. And the newest residents speak English and Nepali, being retired Gurkhas.
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Evensong / int_c514c2c4	type	Gentleman and a Scholar
Evensong / int_c514c2c4	comment	Gentleman and a Scholar: Fr Paddick, although of unashamedly working class origins Sher, too. The Duke â€¦ is a scholar. And we may leave it at that.
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Evensong / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Evensong / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Sir Thomas Douty, who is, though a baronet, meek and mild (hardly surprising, as his late wife wore the trousers). The Rector is nice: which does not mean thick or weak. In fact, most characters are nice to some degree.
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Evensong / int_c57293d6	type	Chastity Couple
Evensong / int_c57293d6	comment	Chastity Couple: Sher and Noel. One is the only devout Muslim in Britain to also be, as a musicologist, an expert on Anglican church and choral music; the other is the Rector, a widower who'd never thought himself particularly bisexual. They love each other, but God and honor come first.
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Evensong / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Evensong / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Echoes, allusions, inversions of Quotable Lines from every English poetâ€¦. Eliot and Borges and Pratchett have nothing on this guy. And nobody since Anthony Price has made more shout-outs to Kipling. Lampshaded when the Duke of Taunton is forever complaining that "nobody reads [Classic Author X] nowadays, what in buggery is the country coming to?"â€¦. The Duke, when behind the wheel of his Bristol, is said to have Richard Hammond as his spirit animal.
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Evensong / int_c76f81b8	type	Non-Idle Rich
Evensong / int_c76f81b8	comment	Non-Idle Rich: The Duke. And Sir Thomas. And the Nawab.
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Evensong / int_c7839568	type	Nice Jewish Boy
Evensong / int_c7839568	comment	Nice Jewish Boy: Zigzagged. Lew Salmon, like his uncle Sir Bennett, is nice, Jewish, and male. But they are or were each one more of a mensch.
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Evensong / int_c78c0896	type	Big Friendly Dog
Evensong / int_c78c0896	comment	Big Friendly Dog: By spaniel standards, the ducal Clumbers; at his other properties, Otterhounds, Welsh Springer Spaniels, and so on. The duke having given Clumbers to all his acquaintance, the other major characters have large amiable canines as well; and Lady Crispin breeds Bassets and Old English Sheepdogs. The servants sigh, and clean up the drool and the muddy pawprints.
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Evensong / int_c7f294da	type	Large and in Charge
Evensong / int_c7f294da	comment	Large and in Charge: Although giving due ecclesiastical obedience to his superiors, Fr Campion is this to parishioners. And anyone who's had a pint down the Boar will recognize that Mr Kellow fits the trope. Averted with the Duke, who is The Napoleon. ("Generations of tall men thinking it charming in them to marry short women, it had to catch up with us sometime.)"
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Evensong / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
Evensong / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut / Ironic Echo Cut: Sometimes almost simultaneous.
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Evensong / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Evensong / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: These are not accepted in the Woolfonts. Clear as a lampshade about that.
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Evensong / int_c938697e	type	Short Story
Evensong / int_c938697e	comment	Short Story: Many of the interleaved chapters to the main contemporary narrative: the American tourist hunting ancestors in churchyards, the history of the bakery, laying ghosts, Ben Salmon's backstory....
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Evensong / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Evensong / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Edmond regards all religion as magic-mongering; and doesn't believe in magic. At all. Which gets interesting when they all go to disrupt a local coven's operations and he gets so overwrought he might as well be possessed. The Duke is constrained by law to acknowledge rights of conscience and freedom of worship. But, in the case of a very heterodox coven, he is damned if they've therefore the right to steal other people's sheep for their ceremonies. On a more meta level, Professor Farnaby doesn't believe in magic either, but he can't look at a landscape without wondering if it's sacral. The Duke inevitably argues with him, from the military historian's perspective.
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Evensong / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
Evensong / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Non-Action Guy: A character who simply does not exist in the Woolfonts. The action may not be physical, but there is really no one in the novel it would be wise to mess with.
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Evensong / int_cc8e6ce1	type	Politician Guest-Star
Evensong / int_cc8e6ce1	comment	Politician Guest-Star: The PM; the Chancellor; Frank Field MP; Mrs T in flashback, Boris Johnson â€“ "Al" to the Duke, who was at Eton with him.... Not to mention several Royals, if you count them as politicians. The PM and the Chancellor are not named. In the circumstances, that would be a decidedly unfriendly Lawyer-Friendly Cameo. VV Putin is openly named, in a very unfriendly reference.
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Evensong / int_cd7ef676	type	Seen It All
Evensong / int_cd7ef676	comment	Seen It All: The Duke. (Int Corps, remember?) The Headmaster, as to pupils. Emily Lane at The Woolford (guests.... God help us all). The clergy. And, institutionally, the villages: It's not what everyone knows â€“ and they do know â€“, it's what everyone kindly refrains from saying.
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Evensong / int_cf231d54	type	Cool Teacher
Evensong / int_cf231d54	comment	Cool Teacher: They seem to breed them at the Free School, but of course Sher is first among equals.
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Evensong / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
Evensong / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: The Duke is "the precise height of Old Father Time at Lord's": 5'4". He's the biggest man in the District in every other sense. He's not short, he's concentrated.
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Evensong / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Evensong / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: Also a portmantitle, being just a compound word.
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Evensong / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Evensong / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Dusting things is boring. Dusting priceless things you're getting a degree in is not. (A barrister explicitly notes that most of the Duke's servants have special interests in their jobs, and his Servants' Halls are so many S.C.R.s (faculty lounges).) Digging dirt is boring, too. Finding a Roman villa is exciting. And the economic history of three manors is not exciting, until it is. Nor would most people get much out of walking the same stretch of river every day. But to a water bailiff who likes to birdwatch and keep track of voles....
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Evensong / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Evensong / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Lady Agatha, for one. Flora, Dowager Countess of Freuchie, for another.
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Evensong / int_d352b919	type	No Sympathy for Grudgeholders
Evensong / int_d352b919	comment	No Sympathy for Grudgeholders: Most characters have lost sympathy for Edmond for most of the book. Rupert calls his mother Lady Crispin out for the same fault, as do others. And ex officio, the Rector is diligent in pointing out that holding grudges is a sin to be repented of. Subverted as to the Duke, who will not tolerate some offenses and will not forget even if â€“ if â€“ he forgives. His reasons are sufficiently compelling to everyone save the clergy that he gets a pass from most characters. And the Nawab makes no bones about it. His theology is not that of the Nasrani, and he is a great prince (titular him no titulars) who sits in judgment on others and answers only to God.
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Evensong / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Evensong / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Or as it's known locally, the Way of the Duke.
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Evensong / int_d5a1770a	type	British Stuffiness
Evensong / int_d5a1770a	comment	British Stuffiness: Zigzagged all over the place. Lady Crispin and Lady Douty overqualify, to the point of iciness. The Duke is far too grand and far too great an aristocrat to concern himself with such mores. Sher, and still more his family, and especially his uncle the Nawab, are ''very'' correct, as a rule.
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Evensong / int_d67aae8f	type	It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Evensong / int_d67aae8f	comment	It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The story covers the period from the 2015 floods to and through the General Election. There are a lot of such nights. In fact, the action begins before dawn on one such, as the Rector is doing his press-ups and sit-ups listening to the storm without and to the Shipping Forecast on the Beeb.
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Evensong / int_d68c925d	type	Creator Provincialism
Evensong / int_d68c925d	comment	Creator Provincialism: And quite unabashed about it. The West Country is the wide focus even in a volume that takes the characters to rural Cheshire, rural Shropshire, and the Clent Hills. The tight focus is on three villages, a hamlet, and the District around them. And to not a few of the characters, Cricket is the most important thing in life.
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Evensong / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Evensong / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Subverted as to Mr. Kellow down the Boar. Mostly true of the Dean and the Archdeacon. Absolutely true of the Warden of All Souls, the Dean of Christ Church, and the unfortunate Provost of Oriel.
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Evensong / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Evensong / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Sher and Edmond, with the added vitriol of being two Yorkshiremen in exile; the Duke and every friend he has, and the Nawab most of all.
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Evensong / int_d85c505	type	Racist Grandma
Evensong / int_d85c505	comment	Racist Grandma: Spear side version in Snook; but â€“ as O.O.C. Is Serious Business â€“ it's a sign of his dementia.
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Evensong / int_d9d8fd35	type	Battle Butler
Evensong / int_d9d8fd35	comment	Battle Butler: The Duke's butler, Viney — Mister Viney to you, unless you're the Duke or his family — and indeed all the staff at Wolfdown House. Viney's the other churchwarden (with the Duke), Vice-Captain (with the Duke) of the Woolfonts Combined XI, the overall XO for everything, and runs rings around the local constabulary for intel and investigation. As the Duke says, 'I haven't a network of informers, really, I've a staff' — and the Duke was an Intelligence Corps officer at the sharp end in Iraq and Afghanistan. Viney's less a Battle Butler than a Battle Bunter.
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Evensong / int_da1e24b7	type	Recovered Addict
Evensong / int_da1e24b7	comment	Recovered Addict: Teddy had a coke problem years ago; Edmond and Sher are both recovering alcoholics.
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Evensong / int_dab2f3ee	type	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
Evensong / int_dab2f3ee	comment	Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Blanchard the surgeon, Dr Witchard, and Dr Lee do not believe the former exists. Least of all for heart patients. Nevertheless, the Duke misses his pipe and occasional after-dinner cigar, and cannot be persuaded not to substitute (nasal) snuff for them.
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Evensong / int_db9940c4	type	Famed In-Story
Evensong / int_db9940c4	comment	Famed In-Story: Look, they're a bunch of badasses (many of them titled), scholars, and saints. Of course everyone who matters has heard of them. In-universe, there's even a Woolfonts fandom and associated Tumblrs.
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Evensong / int_dc2912f	type	Armoured Closet Gay
Evensong / int_dc2912f	comment	Armoured Closet Gay: Edmond tried that when young, pursuing a football career. It didn't take, and a good deal of what's a bit off with Edmond is that he's still reacting to that. Sher was simply discreet about being bi, he was always open about it.
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Evensong / int_dc6a260b	type	Try to Fit That on a Business Card
Evensong / int_dc6a260b	comment	Try to Fit That on a Business Card: Truth in Television for academics, hereditary peers, and persons holding Crown Honours and Crown Appointments. Which is a goodish bit of the cast. The Duke in full, by way of example:
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Evensong / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Evensong / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: The Duke, surprisingly enough; and assuredly the Headmaster, and the Rector, and the Rural Dean, and even the Archdeacon and the Bishop, and the Chief Constable, and Mr Viney to the Servants' Hall, and â€“ well, there are no unreasonable ones, really.
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Evensong / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Evensong / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Hetty and Mark Grampound; Ameena and Tariq; Rupe and Bells; the Duke and Lady Lacy.... Even, for those too stubborn to accept the anchor, Sher and Noel.
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Evensong / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Evensong / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: The Duke points out to Teddy that people may get a succession of these over the course of their lives, some specific to school, others used only amongst those playing on the same XI, and so on. Which is why, after his Death Equals Redemption decease, the Duke reverts to calling his brother as "Spin," a name he earned as a bowler.
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Evensong / int_ddb444ef	type	Hates Small Talk
Evensong / int_ddb444ef	comment	Hates Small Talk: The Duke himself notes that he combines the characters of Peel and Wellington by having neither manners nor small talk. And by "notes," he seems to mean, "prides himself on."
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Evensong / int_df2b3ec	type	Kindly Housekeeper
Evensong / int_df2b3ec	comment	Kindly Housekeeper: Mrs Viney at Wolfdown, who, seeing some imperfectly polished silver, wonders if one of the lower servants is ill. And she has nothing on the motherly Rose James at the Rectory, as Sher and Noel can attest.
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Evensong / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Evensong / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: Plenty. For example, the suggestion that the reason why Benjamin Disraeli's "favorite flower" was said to be the primrose ("Primrose" is the family name of the Earls of Rosebery, one of whom was Prime Minister some years after Dizzy was), had to do with the bisexuality of both men, and, in effect, "someone had tell Queen Victoria something True But Misleading."
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Evensong / int_e08f95fd	type	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes
Evensong / int_e08f95fd	comment	Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: Well, everything is louder with the pipes, even in rural Wilts. Including funerals (although Amazing Freaking Grace was not played): namely, that of Lord Crispin, brother to the Duke of Taunton, they being descended of a Stuart royal bastardy. Old Rory, marquess of Badenoch, has his own personal piper (as does the Duke: one at Luineag, and one at Camserney, his properties in Scotland).
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Evensong / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
Evensong / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Noel's mum and gran; Emily Mirza, Sher's mum; and Lady Crispin, when roused. And the Hon. Gwen. Before her children are even born.
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Evensong / int_e24e15a6	type	Has a Type
Evensong / int_e24e15a6	comment	Has a Type: As several characters incessantly point out, Sher looks, by chance, a good deal like Noel's late wife. There's a tendency in Sher's family of marrying an English Rose.
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Evensong / int_e28f88b8	type	Last-Name Basis
Evensong / int_e28f88b8	comment	Last-Name Basis: Zigzagged. Servants of course are called appropriately: Mr. or Mrs. or Miss for upper servants, Christian names for footmen, last names for others; the Duke may offer first name terms to the humblest of villagers he approves of, but the public school tradition of nickname-or-surname exerts a powerful pull among equals.
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Evensong / int_e3739de7	type	Cast Full of Pretty Boys
Evensong / int_e3739de7	comment	Cast Full of Pretty Boys: The Rector, Teddy, Edmond, The Breener, Sher, the ducal nephewsâ€¦.
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Evensong / int_e49686	type	The Hero
Evensong / int_e49686	comment	The Hero: Possibly the villages as a whole. No one of the characters quite fits â€“ and several of them would doubtless argue that they don't fit.
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Evensong / int_e502e268	type	Family Theme Naming
Evensong / int_e502e268	comment	Family Theme Naming: The Duke's family are Stuarts by descent. Wherefore Charles, Rupert, James, Henrietta Maria.... The Methwolds, Lords Breckland and Swaffham, began their rise under the Tudors. They did very well for themselves, later, by marrying the illegtimate daughters or the daughters of those daughters in Hanoverian times. Result: plenty of Georges and George Augustuses.
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Evensong / int_e54362ef	comment	The Hunk: Father Paddick. (Sher is more the male-model sort.) Edmond calls him "Vertonghen in vestments;" even the Duke's brother, writing (ostensibly) from the US, compares him to Tom Brady. And he's so damned nice, with it â€¦ face it, Fr. Paddick is basically a really sexy Captain Carrot In a Clerical Collar.
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Evensong / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Evensong / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Every character in the book has Strong Principles and an inability to give up. Particularly the Rector and the Duke. Which is fine when they agree; otherwiseâ€¦.
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Evensong / int_e743ffa9	type	Good Old Ways
Evensong / int_e743ffa9	comment	Good Old Ways: The Duke, explicitly and with a lampshade on, is in principle a Thatcherite believer in free men, free minds, and free markets. His heart however is in bluntly lampshaded favor of Tory paternalism and neo-feudalism. As the parishes are under Alternative Episcopal Oversight and hew to the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, this trope also applies to them, their vestries, and their clergy.
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Evensong / int_e758e4d6	type	Ghibli Hills
Evensong / int_e758e4d6	comment	Ghibli Hills: In legend, and in the Middle Ages and before, many a barrow, gull cave, wood, and hill-fort. The Duke is impatient of such legends. So is Professor Lacy. When the archaeological team are discussing Wodewough Wood and the medieval records showing how many sheep were lost there, no one attributes it to the British version of Bigfoot; but it is Lady Lacy who points out that, for robbers and outlaws without deer to poach, mutton is an acceptable substitute.
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Evensong / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Evensong / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: It generally means a storm is about to break. Particularly when it's the Duke.
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Evensong / int_e90f5682	type	But Not Too Gay
Evensong / int_e90f5682	comment	But Not Too Gay: Averted as above.
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Evensong / int_ea262717	type	Remittance Man
Evensong / int_ea262717	comment	Remittance Man: If you're thinking Lord Crispin, you're doing very well.
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Evensong / int_ea6abe17	type	Every Scar Has a Story
Evensong / int_ea6abe17	comment	Every Scar Has a Story: With Rugged Scar: After his heart attack and bypass, the Duke is even less inclined to wear open collars.
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Evensong / int_eba4e300	type	Honorary Uncle
Evensong / int_eba4e300	comment	Honorary Uncle: The ancient but sharp Lord Mallerstang, who is in fact the cousin of Lady Crispin's father, a previous Baron Mallerstang and Swarthfell. And the Duke to his godchildren, including the posthumous niece of the Rector's late wife. (The Rector is technically an honorary uncle to her as well.)
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Evensong / int_ec200a54	type	Steam Never Dies
Evensong / int_ec200a54	comment	Steam Never Dies: At least not in the Woolfonts. The Woolfonts & Chickmarsh Railway is a roaring success, and everyone is an anorak. Besides, The Rector's father and brothers-in-law (well, his sisters' husbands and the brothers of his late wife) and his late wife's family have all been brought down to work either for the W&CR or for the community real ale brewery which does its Rail Ale scheme, out of sheer Rail Enthusiast devotion.
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Evensong / int_ecc643	type	But I Would Really Enjoy It
Evensong / int_ecc643	comment	But I Would Really Enjoy It: Neither Sher nor Noel is under any illusions: in addition to being the one living person each would like to wake up with and live with and love, they are well aware they'd have "a ridiculous amount of fun in bed." They're still not going to. Lampshaded when Sher has had enough of Edmond's Shipper on Deck nagging, and the accusation he doesn't want Noel enough to gut up and do something about it. He gives (we are told) an icy, precise, pornographically detailed of everything he'd like Noel to do to him and vice versa, and watches Edmond squirm.
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Evensong / int_ecfbba60	type	Fee Fi Faux Pas
Evensong / int_ecfbba60	comment	Fee Fi Faux Pas: Subverted. Edmond, and for that matter the Duke, simply doesn't give a damn.
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Evensong / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Evensong / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted to hell and gone. As noted, the Rector's parents and his bishop and that bishop's wife have the same Christian names; there are numerous Toms, Simons, Marys, Emilys, and so on, in all walks of life.
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Evensong / int_ef9a1b88	type	BassoProfundo
Evensong / int_ef9a1b88	comment	Basso Profundo: The Duke is very short, very trim, and practically an oktavist.
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Evensong / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
Evensong / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: Unless Horse Guards Parade or any parade ground is "indoors," the Duke qualifies. And doesn't care. Mr Kellow down the pub can also blast artillery into silence when chucking someone out.
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Evensong / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Evensong / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: With War Is Glorious: The Duke comes of a military family, and was a Major in the Intelligence Corps. He is moreover an historian. He holds both views.
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Evensong / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
Evensong / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: As long as there's also drink, yes.
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Evensong / int_f5e6ed44	type	No Sense of Humor
Evensong / int_f5e6ed44	comment	No Sense of Humor: Lady Crispin. Still more, Lady Douty.
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Evensong / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
Evensong / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: The Duke is described as being Stirling Moss in a Bristol â€“ on a C road. It's also asserted that Richard Hammond is his spirit animal.
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Evensong / int_fc92cb1d	type	Everyone's Baby Sister
Evensong / int_fc92cb1d	comment	Everyone's Baby Sister: The Duke's niece, Hetty. And she trades on it.
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Evensong / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Evensong / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones / Beware the Quiet Ones: Any Good Shepherd is hell unleashed on predators, after all.
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Evensong / int_fd32c5a1	type	Don't Make Me Destroy You
Evensong / int_fd32c5a1	comment	Don't Make Me Destroy You: The Duke conscientiously tries to warn people. But do they listen? Do they, hell. Father Noel Paddick's rectorial version is, basically, "I beseech you, look to your soul." It is not he who threatens, after all....
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Evensong / int_fd7f0823	type	Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe
Evensong / int_fd7f0823	comment	Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: Formerly a mild ducal dissipation. Until forbidden by....
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Evensong / int_fdbd6162	type	With Friends Like These...
Evensong / int_fdbd6162	comment	With Friends Like These...: An in-universe response to the bickering between Edmond and Sher â€¦ and the Duke and everyone. Especially when he helps â€“ by taking a project over.
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Evensong / int_fea42091	type	Badass Preacher
Evensong / int_fea42091	comment	Badass Preacher: The default setting for the C of E â€“ no, really â€“ as well as the Roman Catholic Church. And the Nonconformists. Spiritually and when called upon to be; physically if pushed to it. (The Rector used to box, after all; curate Fr Campion rowed for Keble; incoming curate Fr Bohun is, formally, Retired Badass the Revd Sir Gilbert Bohun Bt MC â€“ yes: Military Cross â€“, late Major, the Blues and Royals.) And then there are the Sikhs, obviously. Lew Salmon is not to be trifled with, either. And the only Hindus and/or Buddhists in the District (there's a lot of syncretism with this particular group) are retired Gurkhas. So.... If you want a near-pacifist in the Woolfonts â€¦ send over to the Trowbridge masjid for Dr Jettou, the imam. (Whose wife, by the way, is an academic lawyer whose specialism is the law of armed conflict.)
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Evensong / int_ff17ccf1	type	Innocently Insensitive
Evensong / int_ff17ccf1	comment	Innocently Insensitive: Edmond wears blinders when his activism is activated. Fr Bohun calls him on it, on Edmond's own terms:
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Evensong / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Evensong / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Medical details, railway schedules, road distances, geology, archaeology, history, economic history.... The names on the War Memorial are local; the liturgy is correct; it's all there.
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