The Westerby Inheritance (1982)
“It was one of those soft gray days so peculiar to the English climate. Everything seemed washed in gray color, and even the cat prowling through the bushes of the square was silver-gray.
Although she had arrived in London but two days before, cards were already beginning to arrive, and the door knocker banged all day as one liveried footman after another delivered invitations.
Any news about money travels fast in society, and by now most of polite London knew that Lady Jane Lovelace was possess...ed of an extremely handsome fortune.
Jane had accepted an invitation to an assembly at the Duke of Ruthfords that evening and had persuaded Hetty to act as chaperon, although it was plain that poor Hetty was frightened to death.
Jane sighed, thinking of the old Hetty swaggering down the country lanes with her fowling piece over her shoulder, afraid of neither man nor beast. The Marquess had elected to stay at home at the Chase. For all his attacks of childishness, he was still a conscientious landlord and took great pleasure in his tenants’ welfare, which is more than could be said of many estate owners who had all their wits about them.MoreLess
Although she had arrived in London but two days before, cards were already beginning to arrive, and the door knocker banged all day as one liveried footman after another delivered invitations.
Any news about money travels fast in society, and by now most of polite London knew that Lady Jane Lovelace was possess...ed of an extremely handsome fortune.
Jane had accepted an invitation to an assembly at the Duke of Ruthfords that evening and had persuaded Hetty to act as chaperon, although it was plain that poor Hetty was frightened to death.
Jane sighed, thinking of the old Hetty swaggering down the country lanes with her fowling piece over her shoulder, afraid of neither man nor beast. The Marquess had elected to stay at home at the Chase. For all his attacks of childishness, he was still a conscientious landlord and took great pleasure in his tenants’ welfare, which is more than could be said of many estate owners who had all their wits about them.MoreLess
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