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Thornton Hall. Love Romances of the Aristocracy
Love Romances of the Aristocracy
Table of Contents
PREFACE
LOVE ROMANCES OF THE ARISTOCRACY
CHAPTER I
A PRINCESS OF PRUDES
CHAPTER II
THE NIGHTINGALE OF BATH
CHAPTER III
THE ROMANCE OF THE VILLIERS
CHAPTER IV
THE STAIN ON THE SHIRLEY 'SCUTCHEON
CHAPTER V
A GHOSTLY VISITANT
CHAPTER VI
A MESSALINA OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER VII
A PROFLIGATE PRINCE
CHAPTER VIII
THE GORGEOUS COUNTESS
CHAPTER IX
A QUEEN OF COQUETTES
CHAPTER X
THE ADVENTURES OF A VISCOUNT'S DAUGHTER
CHAPTER XI
A SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ELOPEMENT
CHAPTER XII
TRAGEDIES OF THE TURF
CHAPTER XIII
THE WICKED BARON
CHAPTER XIV
A FAIR INTRIGANTE
CHAPTER XV
THE MERRY DUCHESS
CHAPTER XVI
THE KING AND THE PRETTY HAYMAKER
CHAPTER XVII
THE COUNTESS WHO MARRIED HER GROOM
CHAPTER XVIII
A NOBLE VAGABOND
CHAPTER XIX
FOOTLIGHTS AND CORONETS
CHAPTER XX
A PEASANT COUNTESS
CHAPTER XXI
THE FAVOURITE OF A QUEEN
CHAPTER XXII
TWO IRISH BEAUTIES
CHAPTER XXIII
THE MYSTERIOUS TWINS
CHAPTER XXIV
THE MAYPOLE DUCHESS
CHAPTER XXV
THE ROMANCE OF FAMILY TREES
INDEX
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Thornton Hall
Published by Good Press, 2019
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"she was visited for her beauty's sake by people, as the Queen is at nights. And they say also she is likely to go to Court again, and there put my Lady Castlemaine's nose out of joint. God knows that would make a great turn."
How far the Duke's bride succeeded in putting Lady Castlemaine's "nose out of joint" must remain a matter of speculation. There seems little doubt that as a wife she proved more complaisant to Charles than as a maid. She had carried her virtue unstained to the altar and a Duchess's coronet, and this seems to have been the main concern of the beautiful prude. That Charles was more infatuated even with the wife than with the maid-of-honour is incontestable. He not only made open love to her at Court, but, especially after he had packed off her husband, the Duke, as Ambassador to Denmark, his pursuit took a clandestine and more dangerous shape. Pepys throws a light on what looks like a secret amour, when he tells us, on the authority of Mr. Pierce, that Charles once "did take a pair of oars or a sculler, and all alone, or but one with him, go to Somerset House (from Whitehall), and there, the garden-door not open, himself clamber over the wall to make a visit to the Duchess, which is a horrid shame."
