The Spinster And the Rake
“His sympathetic aunt was tactless enough to tell him so.
“I am not sulking, Gillian,” he shot back, deeply offended. “But sometimes a man’s got things on his mind. Nothing to bother the weaker sex with, of course. But we all have our burdens.” He let out a noble sigh.
“Yes, dear. Are you sulking because you weren’t invited to the Cherringtons’ with your aunt and uncle? I assure you that you wouldn’t want to go. Even Felicity is relieved to be excluded from the evening’s torments. Watere...d punch and stale cakes do not number among my especial delights.”
“As if I cared for such trumpery things,” Bertram scoffed. “I’ve a great deal more on my mind than parties and such.”
Gillian surveyed him with tolerant affection. The first of a seemingly endless line of nieces and nephews, he now, at the advanced age of nineteen, considered himself a gentleman of town bronze. Gillian suspected he fell far short of the mark and had noticed his increasing abstraction over the past two weeks since he had been sent down in disgrace from Oxford.MoreLess
“I am not sulking, Gillian,” he shot back, deeply offended. “But sometimes a man’s got things on his mind. Nothing to bother the weaker sex with, of course. But we all have our burdens.” He let out a noble sigh.
“Yes, dear. Are you sulking because you weren’t invited to the Cherringtons’ with your aunt and uncle? I assure you that you wouldn’t want to go. Even Felicity is relieved to be excluded from the evening’s torments. Watere...d punch and stale cakes do not number among my especial delights.”
“As if I cared for such trumpery things,” Bertram scoffed. “I’ve a great deal more on my mind than parties and such.”
Gillian surveyed him with tolerant affection. The first of a seemingly endless line of nieces and nephews, he now, at the advanced age of nineteen, considered himself a gentleman of town bronze. Gillian suspected he fell far short of the mark and had noticed his increasing abstraction over the past two weeks since he had been sent down in disgrace from Oxford.MoreLess
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