The Inconvenient Duchess
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Christine Merrill. The Inconvenient Duchess
MILLS & BOON
MILLS & BOON
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“And do you also like dishonor, to court it so?”
Miranda bowed her head again, no longer able to look him in the eye. It had been a mistake to come here. Her behavior had been outlandish, but she had not been trying to compromise herself. However, in walking to the house she had risked all, and now, if the duke turned her out and she had to find her own way home, there would be no way to repair the damage to her reputation.
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‘The man, so tall?’ The duke sketched a measurement with his hand. ‘And plump. With grey hair. The wife: tall, lean as a rail. A mouth that makes her look—’ he pulled a face ‘—a little too respectable.’
She shrugged. ‘I suppose that could be them. If he had spectacles and she had a slight squint.’
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