Gallant Waif by Anne Gracie EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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London. Late autumn, 1812.
“Good God! Do you mean to tell me my grandson did not even receive you
after you’d travelled I don’t know how many miles to see him?” Lady
Cahill frowned at her granddaughter. “Oh, for goodness’ sake, Amelia, stop
that crying at once and tell me the whole story! From the beginning!”
Amelia gulped back her sobs. “The house is shabby and quite horrid,
though the stables seem well enough—”
“I care nothing for stables! What of my grandson?” Lady Cahill
interrupted, exasperated.
“His manservant told me Jack saw no one.”
The old lady frowned. “What do you mean, no one?”
“I mean no one, Grandmama, no one at all. He—Jack, that is—
pretended to be indisposed. He sent a message thanking me for my concern
and regretting his inability to offer me hospitality. Hospitality! His own
sister!”
Amelia groped in her reticule for a fresh handkerchief, blotted her tears
and continued, “Of course I insisted that I go up and tend him, but his man
—a foreigner—would not even allow me up the stairs. I gathered from him
that Jack was not ill…just…drunk! He won’t see anyone. And, according to
his manservant, he’s been like that ever since he returned from Kent.”
There was a long pause while the old lady digested the import of this.
“Kent, eh? I wish to God he had never set eyes on that poisonous little
Davenport baggage.” She glanced up at her granddaughter. “I take it, then,
that the betrothal is definitely at an end.”
“Unfortunately, yes, Grandmama.”
“Good!” said Lady Cahill vehemently. “He’s well rid of that little harpy
and you know it.”
“But, Grandmama, it appears to have broken his heart.”
“Nonsense! He’s got a fine strong heart. He’s got my blood in him,
hasn’t he? When you’re my age, you’ll stop prating of broken hearts and
other such nonsense. Bodies mend and so do hearts.”
There was a long silence.
“But that’s just it, isn’t it, Grandmama?” Amelia said at last. “Bodies
don’t always mend, do they? Jack’s servant said that Jack’s leg is still very
bad and painful, although he can walk.”
Lady Cahill thought of the way her favourite grandson had looked when
he’d come back from the wars in Spain. Such a fine tall, athletic lad he had
been, too, before he left. But now…
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