Isabelle and Alexander by Rebecca Anderson EPUB & PDF – Details About
- Author: Rebecca Anderson
- Genre: Clean & Wholesome Romance, Victorian Historical Romance
- Publish Date: 4 May 2021
- Size: 4 MB
- Format: PDF / EPUB
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- Price: Free
Isabelle Rackham stood in the morning parlor staring into the mirror,
grateful to be alone for a moment and that nobody was fidgeting with
buttons, bows, fasteners, or pins. She took as deep a breath as her corseting
allowed and ran her hands down the waist of her bridal gown, allowing
herself a little shiver of delight.
Her wedding day.
Every young woman surely dreamed of this day, and Isabelle was no
different, having planned and schemed and imagined every possibility, but
even in her fantasies, she hardly dared hope that the groom would look like
Alexander Osgood.
She had heard of him, of course, from her father. His successful mill in
Manchester kept her father happily, profitably busy as Mr. Rackham supplied
the mill’s coal. When her mother requested that Mr. Osgood send a miniature
portrait, Isabelle felt sure that the artist had taken liberties with reality: no
man was as handsome as that painting made him look. Isabelle begged her
parents for a meeting wherein she could ascertain how closely the art
reflected the man.
Her request was refused. Mr. Alexander Osgood’s reputation had traveled
far enough that young ladies from the Lakes had heard of his rise to success
as well as his good looks. Isabelle ought to simply take rumor as fact. She did
wonder, though, about his mind. His temperament.
Without appearing overly eager to know more, Isabelle would ask subtle
questions of her acquaintances. In return, they would repeat, again and again,
that he was remarkably handsome. Perhaps that was all the man had to his
claim. If that was the case, Isabelle had decided to overlook attendant
deficiencies. A dashing countenance, she could admit, was sufficiently
charming.
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