THE DUKE, MY RESCUE BY HANNA HAMILTON – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Hanna Hamilton
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“Thank goodness that is over.”
A short laugh escaped Georgiana before she could help herself. Turning
away from the front door, which she had closed to ensure her guests were
gone, she turned to see her little sister skipping over to her.
It was difficult to scold anyone so adorable as her sister, who was newly ten
years of age. Emma was a small, spritely-looking thing. While they both
had their father’s light blonde hair and deep green eyes, Emma had yet to
have the same growth spurt that Georgiana had despised for the better part
of her life.
Too tall to be graceful but too thin to be stately. Sometimes I feel like a
walking tree, and the cobblers don’t particularly help me feel any better
than that. Hopefully, Emma will not have the height that Father and I share.
Perhaps she’ll have Mama’s soft, small figure instead.
“I missed you!” Emma cried, before throwing her arms around Georgiana’s
middle.
Georgiana hugged her around the shoulders, leaning forward not just to
make sure Emma had indeed washed her hair that morning but also to soak
in the familiar scent of lilac. A smile spread across her lips as she
straightened.
“We broke our fast together this morning not three hours ago,” Georgiana
reminded her sister with a chuckle. As Emma pulled back to pout at her, she
added, “But I missed you just as much.”
“I missed you more.”
“That’s not possible.” Poking her sister in the nose, Georgiana nodded
toward the parlor. “There are a few cakes left if you are still hungry.”
And just like that, she was forgotten.
Emma’s eyes rounded like saucers before she turned and fled through the
large doorway. Her scampering steps faded away. However, it didn’t take
long to hear her small squeals of delight.
Laughing, Georgiana followed her sister back into the parlor.
Visiting hours were usually noneventful in their little household. If she
weren’t the eldest daughter of the long-widowed Earl of Lincoln, then she
believed she would have had more freedom to do as she liked. But even
then, she had more than most women had.
Of course, it is more than other ladies of the ton enjoy. So long as I hold up
the Honeyfield family name, Father doesn’t raise a fuss. He doesn’t even
acknowledge his two daughters if he doesn’t need anything from us.
It had been over a year since she’d acted as hostess for any event her father
wished to host. Now that she was in her fourth Season at two-and-twenty,
he didn’t even see the need to ensure a chaperone accompany her to social
events.
Not that Georgiana cared much for them. She tried to attend a few
whenever they were in London, but for most of the time, her father liked to
keep the two of them in the country, in Devonshire. Which she and Emma
didn’t mind one bit.
That would keep nosy braggarts like Mrs. Lyle and her daughter, Lady
Comtel, out of this house. They show up every Season just to ensure that
Elizabeth is prettier and more successful than me. It’s a competition they
are happy to win, since I have no need of looks or husbands.
Or so Georgiana liked to tell herself.
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