Lucinda was happy and deeply in love, but ‘old sins have long shadows’, and on the very night of her engagement party the dark, dangerous shadow of her past confronted her.

The Electress Magdalena Sybilla was a woman of character, virtuous, kind, conventional and managing.

Mr. Manchin has insisted that legislation to streamline the permitting of fossil fuel and energy infrastructure projects, including the West Virginia pipeline, be tied to the spending measure, which is expected to keep the government funded through mid-December.

And like the battles fought over baptism by sprinkling as opposed to total immersion, these modern-day disputations can be tedious.