A Bride for the Rakish Marquess (LORDS OF SIN #3) by Daphne Byrne EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Daphne Byrne
- Language: English
- Genre: Historical Romance
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“We must always remember…It would be best if we made sure to
be…”
“Mama,” Olivia interrupted her mother, the Dowager Countess of
Tottingham’s incoherent rambling gently. “Do desist with your worrying.”
“I…I am not worried, love.”
“Yes,” Olivia continued in the same, soft-spoken way, “you are. Just look at
your silk handkerchief. You fretted so profusely throughout the carriage ride
here that you nearly tore it to pieces.”
The dowager glanced down at the fine handkerchief she was clutching then
sighed in a beleaguered fashion. “It is just…I feel as though perhaps we are
jumping into matters too quickly. I have not had enough time to prepare you
for a situation such as this one and…”
“You have done plenty,” Olivia assured her. “And what knowledge you did
not supply, I am sure I have gleaned from my extensive reading.”
“No.” The dowager shook her head minutely. The Dowager Countess of
Tottingham was a prim, elegant sort of lady. She had large, blue eyes that
some remarked were the color of forget-me-nots, and she usually wore a
very serious expression, much like the one gracing her face at present.
She made it a point rarely, if ever, to debate with others. But on this
occasion, as she and her daughter were on the verge of entering the
Dowager Countess of Langford’s lavish country estate and spending the
week at a house party, she seemed to think it incumbent upon her that she
must provide her daughter with some last-minute words of wisdom.
“Books…novels…they do not discuss what is meant to happen at soirees
such as these.”
Olivia giggled girlishly. “Mama, I know right well that you have brought
me here so I might find myself a husband.”
All the color blanched from the dowager’s face. “But how could you
possibly know?”
Feeling quite sympathetic and recognizing her mother’s embarrassment,
Olivia replied simply, “I wrote to Rose. She said the Dowager Countess of
Langford is famous for her week-long house parties. According to my
dearest cousin, the dowager fancies herself quite the matchmaker, and she
takes it upon herself to unite the couples who missed their chance of finding
happiness during the Season in London.”
Once more, Olivia’s mother took up the wringing of her handkerchief, and
her thin dark eyebrows furrowed. “But that is just the problem, my love. I
have kept you from Society all these years because…”
“Yes, I know,” Olivia whispered as they entered the grand foyer and
suddenly were surrounded by a throng of people.
Olivia reached out and curled her hand around the crook of her mother’s
elbow, locking the two of them together. “If you have told me once, you
have said it a hundred times. The members of the ton are not to be trifled
with lightly. They are corrupt and…”
“Shh…” Mama hushed her. “We do not wish for them to overhear us.”
“No one is listening to us,” Olivia pointed out. “No one is even looking our
way. We are simply outsiders, and so everyone else is…”
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