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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