Her Adorable Cad by Marie Higgins EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Marie Higgins
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Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / nor hell a fury like a
woman scorned.
WILLIAM CONGREVE’s PLAY, The Mourning Bride, had been on Priscilla
Hartwell’s mind for two years now. She’d experienced firsthand what it was
like to have not one, but two men reject her outright and leave her
heart broken and desolate. She had become a spinster at the age of twentyfour. If only she could have been fortunate like her older sister, Bridget,
who had married the perfect man who could support her well.
Priscilla pulled her thoughts out of the past and focused on what was
currently happening. The jarring coach she had been riding in for several
hours now was gnawing on her already tattered nerves. She had accepted a
position as the Dowager Duchess of Englewood’s lady’s companion.
Although anxious to move ahead with her life, Priscilla especially
wanted to get away from her father, who was ruining the hopes and dreams
of every one of his children, as he expected them to marry someone wealthy
instead of for love. Once she realized she would never marry because of
having no dowry, she was satisfied to be the companion to the dowager
duchess.
Now Priscilla would get to wear nicer gowns instead of ones that had
been altered every year since she was fourteen. Finally, she would be able
to hold her head high at Society’s functions without the fear of someone
gossiping about her poor family and how the Hartwell daughters were only
after men with money.
The Dowager Duchess of Englewood was in her early sixtieth year and
really didn’t need a companion, but she was very good friends with
Priscilla’s grandmother—and so the deal was made that Priscilla would live
with the dowager, who was crippled and confined to a rollerchair.
The rhythm of the coach slowed, and Priscilla peered out the window at
the magnificent three-story estate as they approached. It was very similar to
the one Bridget was living in with her adoring husband, Lord Adrian
Worthington. The grounds were immaculately cared for, and so very green.
There was even a flower garden off toward the back of the estate that was
visible. She hoped the dowager would allow her to spend time in the
gardens.
Priscilla smiled. Perhaps good fortune was indeed smiling upon her, just
in a different way.
She clutched her satchel and scooted closer to the door. The dowager
had sent her own coach decorated with the family’s crest of blue and silver
on the door. Priscilla had never felt so regal in her life. She prayed this
wouldn’t be the last time she enjoyed this special emotion. She needed
more of it, and often.
The coach stopped and a footman opened the door. He helped her down
before lifting her trunk off the back of the coach. She walked up the several
steps toward the estate. A butler wearing a black and red uniform waited at
the open door, and when he saw her, he bowed slightly.
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