The Diamond’s Absolutely Delicious Downfall (THE NOTORIOUS BRIARWOODS #2) by Eva Devon EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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London, 1789
“Idiots. They’re all idiots!” Estella Dover exclaimed in perfectly
plummy tones. Tones she’d learned for the stage and which were nothing
like the sounds that had surrounded her, her sister, or her mother as a child.
But they’d all learned. After all, none of them had been satisfied to be
orange sellers or the girls who plied other trades to the audience.
No, they had clawed their way out of the mire of the East End and left
its rough accent behind.
So that Lady Juliet could be born…and become a diamond. She was
deeply grateful to her grandmother, her aunt, and of course her dearest
mama for sacrificing so much and for grasping hold of their dreams with
unrelenting fists.
Juliet’s aunt, the grand lady of the theater, sat before her mirror in the
theater dressing room. Costumes festooned the racks, carefully hung by her
dresser.
“I absolutely refuse to do Lear with a happy ending!” Estella
proclaimed with a dramatic swirl of her wrist before she plucked up a rag,
turned, and eyed her made-up face in the candlelit mirror, assessing it for
age and imperfection.
Juliet adored her aunt.
There was no other word for it. She was eccentric, marvelous, full of
life, and took no nonsense from anyone. Oh, how she wished she could be
exactly like Estella, but she could not.
After all, Juliet was Lady Juliette Briarwood, sister of the Duke of
Westleigh, and the fact that she was sitting in a dressing room in Drury
Lane would’ve been a scandal in and of itself except for the fact that she
had come in disguise and had sneaked through the back of the
establishment.
A hackney had brought her across town.
She had only been able to venture here because her mother was out for
the evening, visiting with friends and playing cards at Devonshire House.
Usually, Juliet was at a ball dancing from the set of the sun to the rise of
it. But tonight, she had proclaimed a headache and stayed home because,
quite frankly, she needed a night off.
A night off from revelry seemed like a ridiculous and rather privileged
thing, but sometimes a good time was too much. And then there was the
added issue that she needed her aunt’s practical advice and a laugh—a good
laugh. For though she dearly loved her family, they had largely left any
trace of her mother’s past behind them and were fully invested in the ton.
Save for the eccentricities, of course.
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