A Michaelmas Truce by Mary Kingswood EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Mary Kingswood
- Language: English
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- Genre: Historical British Fiction
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- Publish Date: March 13, 2023
An Unexpected Arrival
HERTFORDSHIRE, THE FIRST DECADE OF THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY
JULY
Morgan Plummer was bored. Chadwell Manor was silent, the family all out,
the servants tucked away in the kitchen wing, and the children… he had no
idea where the children were. Not his responsibility, thank heavens.
He had spent the morning knocking balls around the billiard table to
improve his carom shot, which had always been his weakness.
It was dull
work, but then the Manor was a dull place these days. His brother Owen was
a splendid fellow, naturally, but dry as a bone and without a spark of
liveliness in him. Everything had been fine until Father had died and Owen
had decided that economy was to be the order of the day. Now even the Park
was sold, and they were all squeezed into the Manor like cattle, and the
billiard table had to be taken down every time Sarah chose to hold a dinner
party.
Everyone was miserable under the new arrangements, he thought
savagely, hitting the cue ball so hard that it flew clean off the table. Sarah had
been so proud to be mistress of the Park, and understandably resented giving
up its modern elegance for the decaying heap that was the Manor. Michael
was still miserable after that business with the heiress, and surely it was time
he came out of the dismals? Letitia — well, Letitia was always ill-humoured.
She had been a wailing, unhappy baby and now she was a wailing, unhappy
woman.
There was no doing anything with her, and that husband of hers was
no better, always on about ‘m’brother, the marquess’. As for Patricia, who
knew what went on in her empty head? What a family! James was the only
one of the lot of them that Morgan could honestly say that he liked.
It was James who put his head round the screen that separated the great
hall from the entrance hall, a cheerful smile on his face. He was always
smiling these days.
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