Dancing With the Gull (REVENGE OF THE WALLFLOWERS #14) by Sue London EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Sue London
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Penelope Barshaw loved three things to distraction: books, horses, and
dogs. She also hated three things: dances, dances, and dances. Although
that was one thing, she would argue that she hated it with the force of three.
Unfortunately, although her class provided the privilege of access to the first,
it positively demanded that she attend the last. She was two and twenty now,
unmarried, and perfectly content with her lot in life. In her opinion there was
no reason she needed to continue parading around London like a debutante.
She’d spent six years on the Mart and accepted that she would never marry.
She was too awkward of both body and temperament to marry a man of her
class, and too proud to marry anyone else.
Only six months ago her mama suggested a particular merchant who
might make a fine husband. A merchant! As though Penelope in any way had
the temperament to be a cit! Her mother claimed only to be worried about a
man to take care of her. As though Penelope couldn’t take care of herself,
thank you very much!
It was, undoubtedly, precisely that attitude that made her unpopular with
her own class. When she was younger she lacked the social grace to curb her
tongue when a man said something outrageously stupid. She’d learned to
remain silent, but was sure that her expressions spoke volumes.
Realizing she had more good sense than God seemed fit to give five men
of the ton, she’d been saving her allowance for four years now. She assumed
she was only a year or two from her father realizing that her dowry would be
better spent by giving it to her to manage. She’d originally thought her father
one of the better men of the ton, and while that might be true, he was still
astoundingly slow at realizing his own daughter’s abilities. While they might
not lie with dancing, flirting, or embroidery, the Good Lord help her, she was
at least as good an estate manager as her father or his steward, and a far better
household manager than her mother. Indeed, both of her parents would come
to sorely miss her influence on their household once she established one of
her own. And she would establish her own, because the last thing she wanted
to do was spend the rest of her life being treated like a wayward child while
taking care of the people who birthed her.
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