The Bishop's Daughter (2015)
“As he trudged along the lane, leading his dun-colored gelding by the reins, his portmanteau strapped back of the saddle, he felt neither particularly lordly nor heroic. With his top boots, buckskins, and frock coat caked with dust, his sun-bronzed features streaked with sweat, all Lord Harry felt was tired.
Still, after a year's absence from his Northamptonshire estate, he would have thought there might be at least one face to smile upon him, someone to bob a curtsy by way of greeting to th...e returning Earl of Lytton. Yet the only soul stirring was a mongrel dog panting in the shade of the hedgerows, too affected by the heat radiating from the August sun to even bark.
Shading eyes the hue of hunter's green, Lord Harry peered across the empty expanse of his fields, the tall waves of rye but half-cut, the grain corded in neat bundles waiting to be loaded upon the wagons. Harry frowned, his thick brows as startlingly black as the lustrous waves of his hair.MoreLess
Still, after a year's absence from his Northamptonshire estate, he would have thought there might be at least one face to smile upon him, someone to bob a curtsy by way of greeting to th...e returning Earl of Lytton. Yet the only soul stirring was a mongrel dog panting in the shade of the hedgerows, too affected by the heat radiating from the August sun to even bark.
Shading eyes the hue of hunter's green, Lord Harry peered across the empty expanse of his fields, the tall waves of rye but half-cut, the grain corded in neat bundles waiting to be loaded upon the wagons. Harry frowned, his thick brows as startlingly black as the lustrous waves of his hair.MoreLess
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