Deception (Daughters Of Mannerling 3) - Plot & Excerpts
See the couples advance, - O, Love’s but a dance! A whisper, a glance, - ‘Shall we twirl down the middle?’ O, Love’s but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle! HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Lord Burfield would have not been in the least surprised had he learned that he was the talk of every family that was to attend the ball. He was used to being the centre of attention. As a child, he had been doted on by his parents – a most unusual state of affairs in the Regency, where children were expected to stay out of sight, watched over by governesses or tutors. But he had been a rosy-cheeked cherub with a mop of golden curls, and the pet of the servants as well. He had left the comfort of his home at the age of eighteen to join the army. His father, the Earl of Drezby, had cried fond and proud tears at the sight of his golden-haired boy in his hussar uniform. It was a tradition in England that the aristocracy went into the army and the gentry to the navy, and neither the earl nor the countess expected army life to change their sweet-natured scholarly son in the slightest.
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