However, Sir Randolf has some money problems. Lucas and her hang out some, but an arrogant eight-year-old girl was not the playmate Lucas had been hoping for. Oakapple has actually been quite an effective French teacher after all) and acts fairly haughty and spoilt. She speaks only French (luckily, Lucas discovers that Mr. Then Anna-Marie comes to stay at the manner as well. Lucas' father had been Sir Randolph's partner in operation of The Mill, but had died two years prior. He basically hangs around the dark, gloomy mansion with nothing to do but study French, geometry, and whatever else his tutor Julian Oakapple feels like teaching him. Lucas is an orphan living at Midnight Court with his unpleasant guardian Sir Randolph Grimbsy. It's the sixth book in the series that began with The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. Midnight is a Place is a 1974 children's book about young (twelve?) Lucas Bell and younger (eight) Anna-Marie Eulalie Murgatroyd. The industrial revolution provided a lot of urbanisation, sooty air, and bad working conditions, and that makes for good fiction, when handled properly, Joan Aiken has a habit of writing about the horrors of Victorian-age (or shortly prior to that) England, and this book is no exception.
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