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Waif-like beauty Elvina is tiny and immature after years of malnourishment and indeed she looks far younger than her seventeen years Weak however she is not Hardened by years of beatings and abuse at the hands of her half-crazed Portuguese stepmother and sickened by her fathers constant drunken behaviour Elvina is determined to escape Lisbon and flee to her native England Despite the dangers of the Napoleonic War which is raging in Spain and Port...Seguir leyendo