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The Fitzhenrys, an established, well respected family of their time, are testimony to the belief that heritage and prosperity do not buy personal happiness. When Charles, the younger of the Fitzhenry brothers, is granted the right to their father's estate, the inevitable jealousy of the elder brother Rhodes serves to drive a wedge between the two men and their respective families and estates.Amidst such bitter conflict as that which ensues, only tragedy can result for the two families, so necessarily divided and yet whose lives are soon revealed to be irrevocably intertwined by the lustrous, adulterous acts of certain family members.