A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting by Sophie Irwin EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Authors: Sophie Irwin
- Language: English
- Genre: Women’s Romance Fiction
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Netley Cottage, Biddington, Dorsetshire, 1818
You’re not going to marry me?” Miss Talbot repeated,
disbelievingly.
“Afraid not,” Mr. Charles Linfield replied, his expression set in
a kind of bracingly apologetic grimace—the sort one might wear when
confessing you could no longer attend a friend’s birthday party, rather than
ending a two-year engagement.
Kitty stared at him, uncomprehending. Katherine Talbot—Kitty to her
family and closest acquaintances—was not much used to incomprehension.
In fact, she was well known among her family and Biddington at large for
her quick mind and talent for practical problem-solving. Yet in this moment,
Kitty felt quite at a loss. She and Charles were to be married. She had
known it for years—and it was now not to be?
What should one say, what
should one feel, in the face of such news? Everything was changed. And yet
Charles still looked the same, dressed in clothes she had seen him in a
thousand times before, with that disheveled style only the wealthy could get
away with: an intricately embroidered waistcoat that was badly
misbuttoned, a garishly bright cravat that had been mangled rather than tied.
He ought at least, Kitty thought, staring at that awful cravat with a rising
sense of indignation, to have dressed for the occasion.
Some of this ire must have seeped through to her expression, because all
at once Charles swapped his maddening air of apologetic condescension for
that of a sulky schoolboy.
“Oh, you needn’t look at me like that,” he snapped. “It isn’t as if we
were ever officially promised to one another.”
“Officially promised to one another?” Kitty’s spirit returned to her in full
force, and she discovered, in fact, that she felt quite furious. The
irredeemable cad. “We’ve been speaking of marriage for the past two years.
We were only delayed this long because of my mother’s death and my
father’s sickness! You promised me—you promised me so many things.”
“Just the talk of children,” he protested, before adding mulishly, “and
besides, it isn’t as if I could call things off when your father was on death’s
door. Wouldn’t have been at all the thing.”
“Oh, and I suppose now that he’s dead—not a month in the ground—you
could finally jilt me?” she said wrathfully. “Is that really so much more ‘the
thing’?”
He ran a hand through his hair, his eyes flicking to the door.
“Listen, there’s no point us discussing it when you’re like this,” he
affected the tone of a severely tried man holding onto his patience. “Perhaps
I should go.”
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