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What do you owe to a cause when love asks for something else?
In Sarita, the Carlist, Arthur W. Marchmont brings adventure and romance into the troubled world of nineteenth-century Spain. The Carlist cause backs a rival claim to the throne. Against this divided background, Sarita stands at the center of a tale where private feeling meets public conflict.
Love, duty and political loyalty pull this historical romance in different directions. Beneath its movement and danger lies a question: what do we owe to a cause, a family or someone we love? Marchmont writes for readers who enjoy fast plots and romantic danger, with a heroine at the heart of the story.
What you’ll discover
- A country divided Enter a Spanish setting where rival royal claims give political loyalty a sharp edge.
- Sarita at the center Meet the heroine whose name anchors this tale of love, loyalty and intrigue.
- Love beside duty Explore the tension between private feeling and a public cause in an unsettled world.
- The pull of adventure Find the pace and romantic danger that lie at the heart of Marchmont’s fiction.
- Loyalty under pressure Consider what a person owes to family, a political cause and those they love.
Who will love it
Readers who love swift adventure, secret societies, daring rescues and a romance that must cross political lines. If you enjoy clever bluffs, disguises, royal intrigue and a hero with a sense of humor, this one is yours.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A younger son is sent abroad
- Mistaken for a traitor on arrival
- Sarita explains the borrowed name
- A password and a plan to seize the king
- A powerful friend with a purpose
- A declaration, a rival and a duel
- The king taken and the king saved
- Flight, capture and a rival's challenge
- A false name, a divided heart and a lively voice
Who’s who
- Ferdinand CarbonnellA cheerful younger son and junior diplomat who speaks perfect Spanish, falls for his cousin, and plays a dangerous double game under a borrowed name.
- Sarita CastelarA fiery, beautiful Carlist conspirator who wants to win back her family's fortune and her country's greatness, and who is torn between love and duty.
- Sebastian QuesadaThe powerful Minister of the Interior, charming and ruthless, who holds the Castelar family's property and plots for supreme power.
- Colonel Juan LivenzaA fierce soldier and loyal servant of Quesada who loves Sarita to the point of madness and hates Ferdinand.
- Silas MayhewFerdinand's loyal friend at the British Embassy, who knows Madrid well and gives sound advice that Ferdinand does not always take.
- Mercy CarbonnellFerdinand's loving, quick-witted sister, who teases him, helps him in a crisis, and quickly befriends the cousin she has never met.
- Mrs. CurwenA rich, sharp-tongued English widow who refused Ferdinand's brother, follows Ferdinand to Madrid, and proves a brave and practical friend.
- Dolores QuesadaThe Minister's gentle sister, saved by Ferdinand in a riot, who risks her brother's anger to protect the man she loves.
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Sarita, die Karlistin
A borrowed name makes a young diplomat the target of Madrid conspirators, and a rebel girl saves his life.
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Sarita, the Carlist is an adventure romance by Arthur W. Marchmont, a British novelist who wrote many popular tales of intrigue.
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A younger son is sent abroad
The book opens with a joke that is also a plan. Ferdinand Carbonnell, younger son of Lord Glisfoyle, explains that his elder brother Lascelles wants to marry a rich widow, Mrs. Curwen. She likes the family but finds Lascelles too stiff and solemn. She has also said, with a laugh, that Ferdinand is a scapegrace, and the family decides he had better not be around.
Their answer is a post as probationary attaché at the British Embassy in Madrid. Ferdinand speaks perfect Spanish, because he spent his boyhood in Spain. His father is delighted and talks about ladders, which is his favorite picture of a career. Ferdinand is not pleased to be sent away for his brother's sake, but he takes it with good humor. His sister Mercy, his closest friend, resents the exile far more than he does.
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What is Sarita, the Carlist about?
It follows Ferdinand Carbonnell, a young English diplomat sent to Madrid. His name is being used by Carlist rebels, and he falls in love with his cousin Sarita Castelar while foiling a plot against the boy King and facing a scheming minister.
Who are the Carlists in the book?
The Carlists are Spanish rebels who back Don Carlos as the rightful king instead of the boy King on the throne. Sarita and her brother Ramon are among them, and they plot uprisings and a kidnapping.
What does the title Sarita, the Carlist mean?
It names the book's heroine, Sarita Castelar, a spirited young woman who leads conspirators for Don Carlos. The title points to her passion for the cause, which stands in the way of her love for Ferdinand.
The author
Arthur W. Marchmont
1852–1923 · British novelist
Arthur W. Marchmont was a British author who was born in 1852 and died in 1923. He wrote novels in English, including Sarita, the Carlist. He lived during the second half of the nineteenth century and the first part of the twentieth century.
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