Cousin Prudence had marshaled a vast array of Scripture explicitly designed to point out to Aurelia Amesley the error of her ways in regard to air flight and was waiting only for the opportune moment to launch her campaign. The Earl, having put his mind to the task at hand, had spent the previous...
Morning rehearsals, afternoon rehearsals, fitting of costumes, visits with the dressmaker came and went. Fancy played her part in The Blind Boy, reviewed her lines for The Busybody and The Successful Husband. The crowds continued to riot. It seemed to Fancy that nothing would be right again. Plac...
Neither Cecilie nor Dillydums seemed any the worse for their flight. Indeed, Cecilie kept insisting that it had been great fun, a capital adventure. She took every opportunity to extol the pleasures of balloon flight to her companion. Aggie nodded absently. Being very much a ground kind of person...
Bridget, brushing the great stallion’s glistening coat, sighed deeply. She was no closer to figuring out why Papa and his Lordship were doing this. But there was no need for her to be worrying about the wager. As fast as the perky little filly was, she could never beat the stallion. He wouldn’t l...
She did think rather often of Kemble’s portrayal of Hamlet and contrast it to Kean’s. She even gave quite a bit of consideration to Mr. Pomroy’s suggestion that she might find beauties in both interpretations, but try as she might she could not feel that Kemble’s portrayal...
In spite of the frenzied activity, the fitting of gowns, the ordering of flowers and food, the constant coming and going of tradespeople, all the continual rush and stir of preparation. Psyche found the days endless. The earl was still out of town. He would not return until the very day of Amanda...
The thing he had just suggested was inconceivable, preposterous. The very idea quite took my breath away. "Milord," I said, willing my voice to a steadiness I wished to feel and yet could not. "I cannot marry you, a man I have only just met, a total stranger." Edward, Earl of Grey Cliffs, fixed m...
An acute observer would have noted that Miss Penhope’s muslin gown was not quite of the latest fashion and designed for a long life of moderate use. Miss Penhope, already twenty-four, considered herself beyond the marriage age and therefore did not hold with the fripperies that many younger maide...