Jane Austen Mysteries 08 Jane And His Lordship's Legacy
“~ Mr. Julian Thrace, as Henry later informed me, is the latest sensation of the ton: a gentleman who appears to have sprung from exactly nowhere as recently as January, breaking upon Fashionable London with all the force of a thunderclap: his looks, his air, his manners, and his social graces being of the finest. For a young man of two-and-twenty, who possesses nei-ther title nor fortune, to gain the kind of introductions Mr. Thrace everywhere obtained, was no less extraordinary than it was won...dered at; he was carried into Carlton House on the arm of the Earl of Holbrook; was proposed for membership at White's by as many as half a dozen of its standing members; was admitted to the most exclusive assemblies without hesitation; and was no more suspected of seduction by the careful mam- Jane and His Lordship's Legacy ~ 61 mas parading their daughters in the Green Park of an after-noon, than was the local man of the cloth. "But who is he, Henry?" I demanded, as my brother regaled me with the tale during our return to the cottage.MoreLess
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