Redemption Of The Rake
Реклама. ООО «ЛитРес», ИНН: 7719571260.
Оглавление
Elizabeth Beacon. Redemption Of The Rake
A Year of Scandal
Elizabeth Beacon
Redemption of the Rake. Elizabeth Beacon
Отрывок из книги
A gentleman for every season
At the mercy of a ghostly matchmaker, four gentlemen must perform a shocking task.
.....
‘What a fine clergyman’s wife Joanna will be and she was always better behaved than either of us. I do hope Hester never falls in love with a serious man though, she’d drive him to drink,’ Callie observed with an indulgent glance at ten-year-old Hester Finch rolling over and over in the mown grass in the churchyard and doing her best to shove as much of it as possible down the necks of her mixed assortment of playmates.
‘She still has time to grow up and be a lady, more unlikely things have happened. We weren’t a lot better at the same age and look at you now,’ Rowena said. ‘Hes is in severe need of a lecture on the subject of not picking on much smaller opponents right now, though,’ she said and went off to supervise her little brothers and sisters after a despairing look from her mother and a promise to consider Callie and Gideon’s offer properly.
.....