title: The Sister Wife: Brides of Gabriel Book One
author:  Diane Noble 
description: On the long journey between England and the U.S. in 1841, Lady Mary Rose Ashley falls in love with Gabriel MacKay. Her grandfather has become a saint, a follower of the new religion founded by Joseph Smith, and he's leaving his wealth and estates for a life in their community. Mary Rose has serious doubts about Mormonism, as does Gabriel, but after witnessing a miracle performed by Brigham Young, they become believers. But even though she has embraced her grandfather's faith in the fledgling church, Mary Rose is overcome with jealousy and a sense of betrayal when the Prophet orders that her beloved husband, Gabriel, take a second wifeher best friend, recently widowed Bronwyn Carey. This evenhanded, carefully researched treatment of the history of the Latter-day Saints includes a nonjudgmental look at the beginnings of polygamy. The Sister Wife is the first in Noble's Brides of Gabriel series, which, given the popularity of Big Lovethe HBO television drama about a Fundamentalist Mormon family in Utahshould be a big hit with readers. --Shelley Mosley
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  # Loulou
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Thomas Mann
  
  
  ##### Translated from the German by Kenneth Burke
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
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  ### I
  
  
  
  
  
  THERE are some marriages, and not even an imagination fed up on novels
  
  
  can explain how they came about. They must simply be accepted, the way
  
  
  we accept a juxtaposition of opposing qualities on the stage, such as
  
  
  old-and-stupid over against beautiful-and-full-of-life—which are
  
  
  presupposed, taken for granted as the basis for erecting a farce with
  
  
  the proper mathematics.
  
  
    
  As to the wife of Herr Jacoby, attorney at law, she was young and
  
  
  lovely, an unusually prepossessing woman. Let us say about thirty years
  
  
  ago, she had been baptized Anna Margaret Rose Amelia, but since then
  
  
  she was called nothing but Amra, from her fou