Doves of War: Four Women of Spain
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Paul Preston. Doves of War: Four Women of Spain
DOVES OF WAR
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE Fears and Fantasies
PRISCILLA SCOTT-ELLIS All for Love
NAN GREEN A Great Deal of Loneliness
MERCEDES SANZ-BACHILLER So Easy to Judge
MARGARITA NELKEN A Full Measure of Pain
EPILOGUE
NOTES
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR. DOVES OF WAR
PRAISE
COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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Four Women of Spain
PAUL PRESTON
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It really is awfully nice to be able to do things for people and them be grateful even if I do have to lose my temper with them often. I like being relied on for everything. Whatever bothers them, they ask me. Sometimes it is to do with their wound or illness, sometimes clothes, sometimes a quarrel which I automatically have to decide for them, sometimes I am a go-between to get them leave to visit relations or friends. I pretty nearly am their mother, though God forbid I ever have forty-seven children.
These satisfactions were little enough consolation for the petty jealousies that surrounded her. ‘Everyone thinks I am so calm and unemotional; that I don’t mind all the rows and muddles there are but it is driving me potty. Only seeing everyone else in such a state makes me pretend to be even calmer than I would normally appear.’
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