Baroness in Buckskin (2015)
“. . sat like Patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night Looking back, Jane supposed it had been inevitable. She had been only eighteen when her father’s death had left her cast adrift on the world, much as Miss Susannah Ramsay had been after the death of her own father. But whereas the late Mr. Ramsay had been a wealthy eccentric, Mr. Hawthorne had been a charming wastrel, leaving nothing behind at his death but a mountain of debts, a bevy of disconsolate mis...tresses, and a daughter of marriageable age with no dowry to speak of. When she had first met her cousin Richard, he was twenty-one years old and in mourning for his father, having attained his majority and come into his title within the space of a month. Upon being informed of her existence, he had lost no time in making her acquaintance, and had no sooner straightened up from his introductory bow than he had dropped to one knee and made her a formal offer of marriage.
She had not accepted, of course.MoreLess
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night Looking back, Jane supposed it had been inevitable. She had been only eighteen when her father’s death had left her cast adrift on the world, much as Miss Susannah Ramsay had been after the death of her own father. But whereas the late Mr. Ramsay had been a wealthy eccentric, Mr. Hawthorne had been a charming wastrel, leaving nothing behind at his death but a mountain of debts, a bevy of disconsolate mis...tresses, and a daughter of marriageable age with no dowry to speak of. When she had first met her cousin Richard, he was twenty-one years old and in mourning for his father, having attained his majority and come into his title within the space of a month. Upon being informed of her existence, he had lost no time in making her acquaintance, and had no sooner straightened up from his introductory bow than he had dropped to one knee and made her a formal offer of marriage.
She had not accepted, of course.MoreLess
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