Daughters of Belgravia; vol 1 of 3

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Fraser Alexander. Daughters of Belgravia; vol 1 of 3

CHAPTER I. A LEADER OF SOCIETY

CHAPTER II. SANDILANDS

CHAPTER III. AFTERNOON TEA

CHAPTER IV. LORD DELAVAL

CHAPTER V. CROSS PURPOSES

CHAPTER VI. MISS FLORA FITZALLAN

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It must be a rose-tinted existence. So outsiders fancy as they look at Sandilands from under the shadowy light and shade that falls across some mossy bank, but before they venture an opinion on the subject, let them pause. The judging of other folks’ lives by their external surroundings is the most deceptive work possible.

Sandilands is a paradise, but, like the original Paradise, it has a serpent crawling over its flowers – nay, it has more than one.

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“As if I care who stares at me!” Zai mutters with unwonted recklessness.

“Of course you don’t, pas le moins du monde! Zaidie Beranger, a modern Galatea, that only her Pygmalion, Carl Conway, can rouse into feeling or life, must naturally be as impervious as the Sphinx to curiosity,” Gabrielle says mockingly, with an expressive shrug of her shoulders that, together with a slight accent, denote that she has only a part claim to English nationality.

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