The Karma of Love (Bantam Series No. 14)
“I’m sick to death of having you in the house looking down your nose at me and setting yourself up as if you were someone of importance. You’re a nobody! Do you hear me? Nobody! Let’s see how you fare without money and without me to look after you! If you freeze to death, all the better!”As she was speaking, the Countess of Lyndale, a large, fat, blowsy woman, thrust forward the girl she was holding by the arm so that she fell through the doorway onto the step outside.The door behind her was sla...mmed.Lady Orissa Fane remained for a moment lying on the doorstep, conscious that her head was spinning from a blow her Step-mother had given her on her head, and that her arm was painful from the grip of fat, yet strong fingers.She had been dragged from the Sitting-Room at the back of the house through the Hall and out through the front door.It was impossible to fight against the Countess when she was drunk, as Orissa had discovered on previous occasions.But never before had her Step-mother literally thrown her out of the house.MoreLess
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