Summary
A morally bankrupt scion of Icelandic gubernatorial power plunges into a vortex of deceit and familial betrayal. He first ensnares his brother's beloved in a sham marriage, abandoning her to a desolate fate in childbirth after audacious forgery of his father's name. This initial transgression merely sets the stage for a grander European escapade, where, under the sun-drenched facade of Nice, he seduces her unsuspecting sister. His venality knows no bounds as he squanders illicit gains through reckless gambling, culminating in a fabricated suicide to escape mounting debts. The narrative then chronicles his inevitable, ignominious return to the stark realities of his homeland, a journey fraught with the weight of his manifold sins and the looming specter of reckoning.
Synopsis
In Iceland the governor's son weds bis brother's sweetheart and leaves her to die in childbirth after forging his father's name. He makes love to her sister in Nice, loses his money cheating, fakes suicide and returns home.
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