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Barney Snaith: character portrait from The Blue Castle (L. M. Montgomery)

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Barney Snaith

The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery

The notorious, gossiped-about outlaw living on an island in Lake Mistawis whom Valancy asks to marry her; rumored a jail-bird and criminal, he is secretly the nature-writer John Foster and the estranged son of a patent-medicine magnate.

Also known as: Bernard Redfern, John Foster

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Meet Barney Snaith

Barney Snaith is a reclusive man living on an island in Lake Mistawis, where local gossip brands him a dangerous outlaw and possible criminal. At the story’s outset, Valancy Stirling approaches him with an unexpected request to marry her, drawing him into her troubled life.

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