To Marry a Duke
“Lord and Lady Harborough always held their ball in the middle of May, as a grand finale, before the ton began to retire to their country estates for the summer.
Captain Gideon Pledger, in scarlet regimentals, attracted several simpering smiles from hopeful debutantes as he threaded his way through the crowd that skirted all the main reception rooms, but he ignored them.
He had been summoned to Horse Guards that morning where he had been told he was to report for duty in June. On his return to h...is lodgings in Albemarle Street that afternoon he had found a letter from a brother officer stationed at Weeley. The news it contained had not been happy.
Witherton, it appeared, was now betrothed to the Tremayne chit and the wedding set to take place in August. He had no objection to this; marrying a cit’s daughter to restore one’s fortune was perfectly acceptable. It had been the second item that had raised his choler and sent him into the stuffy, overcrowded Harborough residence to seek out the one person who could possibly help him.MoreLess
Captain Gideon Pledger, in scarlet regimentals, attracted several simpering smiles from hopeful debutantes as he threaded his way through the crowd that skirted all the main reception rooms, but he ignored them.
He had been summoned to Horse Guards that morning where he had been told he was to report for duty in June. On his return to h...is lodgings in Albemarle Street that afternoon he had found a letter from a brother officer stationed at Weeley. The news it contained had not been happy.
Witherton, it appeared, was now betrothed to the Tremayne chit and the wedding set to take place in August. He had no objection to this; marrying a cit’s daughter to restore one’s fortune was perfectly acceptable. It had been the second item that had raised his choler and sent him into the stuffy, overcrowded Harborough residence to seek out the one person who could possibly help him.MoreLess
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