The Engagement - Regency Brides 02
“You, on the other hand, have a better excuse than I," Trevor Kent, the Duke of Northingshire, answered his friend as they watched the guests who were in attendance at the Beckinghams' party. "I don't imagine you can· compare adventure on the high seas and your escapade with pirates with our monotonous English society and their dreary little efforts at entertainment." Thomas Thornton gave North, as the duke was known to his friends, a sardonic grin. "You could not be further from the truth. I di...dn't like dinner parties before my 'adventure,' as you call it, and I will die a happy man if I never get on another boat," he informed him. "And it was a merchant ship that rescued me, by the by." "Yes, but let's keep that between us, eh? The story sounds so much more thrilling to add the pirates." Thomas chuckled. "If it had been pirates, I might have been the dead man everyone thought I was!" Thomas and North shared a sobering glance. "Indeed. God must surely smile on all the Thorntons, since both you and your brother have truly been blessed this past year." While Thomas could now make light of his harrowing scrape with death, it had been the blackest time of his life.MoreLess
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