A Murder, a Marquess, and Miss Mifford (REGENCY MURDER AND MARRIAGE #3) by Claudia Stone EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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The Mifford family had been in London for a week when the time
came for their patriarch, Mr Mifford, to return home to the village of
Plumpton.
“My flock needs me,” Mr Mifford said firmly, when his eldest
daughter raised a last-minute objection to his departure.
“I should hardly think they’ve missed you at all; they’re probably
enjoying the lie-in on a Sunday morning,” Mary, Duchess of Northcott–
who was many things, but not at all tactful–replied with a petulant sigh.
“Then it is my duty to save their souls, for slothfulness is one of the
seven deadly sins,” Mr Mifford replied mildly, though when Mary’s back
was turned, he offered a discreet wink to his third daughter, Emily.
Emily hid a smile, for she knew that her father wished to return to
Plumpton so that he might enjoy some peace and quiet in a house that was
usually bursting with at the seams with feminine activity. Fate had gifted
Mr Mifford with four daughters, and though two–Mary and Jane–were
now married, their marriages had not taken them far from home, and they
called daily to Primrose Cottage.
In the absence of his wife and daughters, Mr Mifford would
probably spend the next few weeks in a state of masculine bliss, eating
things like pickled tripe and crumbed lamb’s brains–which none of the girls
would touch–and sitting in the parlour room with his boots on the silk
ottoman and a glass of brandy in hand.
No wonder he looked so eager to leave.
“I’m not certain that I have packed everything,” Mrs Mifford, the
family matriarch, bellowed as she tottered down the stairs to the entrance
hall.
“Crabb House is only around the corner, Mama,” Mary rushed to
assure her mother, “If you have left anything behind, you can send a
footman to fetch it.”
Mary, Emily noted, was as eager to be rid of her mother as she was
for her father to stay.
“I might do just that,” Mrs Mifford replied, her eyes alight at the
idea that there would be a fresh set of footmen in Crabb House to do her
bidding. When she had married Mr Mifford, Emily’s mother had married
“down”, a fact which greatly irked her. Now that two of her daughters had
married well–to a duke and a viscount respectively–Mrs Mifford was fully
committed to enjoying the luxuries she believed she was long overdue.
“I am sad to leave you, Mary,” Mrs Mifford continued, turning to
her eldest daughter, “But as Jane rightly pointed out, it is not fair if I spend
all my time here in Northcott House. I will divide my time between the two
houses, so that all my daughters get to share me.”
Mrs Mifford’s belief that her presence was a blessing to all in its
receipt was so great that she was utterly oblivious to the fact that her
daughters had concocted a plan to share the burden of hosting her rather
than the privilege.
“I will return in a week or two,” she finished, smiling benevolently
unto Mary and her husband, who both struggled to hide their
disappointment at the news.
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