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Young Philippa Cranley is living a lie. Forced by her tyrannical father to masquerade as a man in order to comply with the terms of her maternal grandfathers Will she knows nothing but cruelty from Archer Cranley and his vicious sister Edna. Only Philippas love for her frail fragile mother keeps the girl enslaved dressed in mens clothing and known to the world as Philip. To increase her humiliation Archer Cranley forces Philip to do a stint in the glassworks a raging inferno of deprivation and danger. There the girl is befriended by Joshua Fairley whose pity is aroused by the gentle lad. But soon Joshua finds his feelings for Philip are more than just pity and is tormented by the thought that he is being tempted into an unholy love... Young Philippa Cranley is living a lie. Forced by her tyrannical father to masquerade as a man in order to comply with the terms of her maternal grandfathers Will she knows nothing but cruelty from Archer Cranley and his vicious sister Edna. Only Philippas love for her frail fragile mother keeps the girl enslaved dressed in mens clothing and known to the world as Philip. To increase her humiliation Archer Cranley forces Philip to do a stint in the glassworks a raging inferno of deprivation and danger. There the girl is befriended by Joshua Fairley whose pity is aroused by the gentle lad. But soon Joshua finds his feelings for Philip are more than just pity and is tormented by the thought that he is being tempted into an unholy love... «
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