Honourable Doctor, Improper Arrangement

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Mary Nichols. Honourable Doctor, Improper Arrangement

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HONOURABLE. DOCTOR, IMPROPER. ARRANGEMENT. Mary Nichols

MILLS & BOON

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

MILLS & BOON

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The night air was cool, much pleasanter than the stuffiness inside. The moon hung just above the rooftops.

‘It seems almost near enough to touch and make a wish,’ Kate said, gazing up at it.

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Young Joe gave a sudden cry of recognition and wriggled to be put down. Simon set him down and he ran to a woman sitting on the tail of a cart, nursing a mewling infant, surrounded by squashed fruit, cabbage leaves and horse droppings. She looked up from contemplating the baby’s head to address the boy. ‘Where ‘ave yer bin, you little devil?’ she said, clipping him round the ear with the flat of her hand. ‘I’ll tan your hide, that I will. I told you not to run off, didn’t I?’

Kate was surprised how young she was. Her hard life made her look older than she was, but she could not have been more than twenty. She must have conceived Joe when she was about sixteen and was probably at that time a pretty little thing, probably could be again if her circumstances were different.

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