An Earl to Remember by Stacy Reid EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Status: Available for Free Download
- Authors: Stacy Reid
- Language: English
- Genre: Victorian Historical Romance
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Size: 2 MB
- Price: Free
Sometimes revenge can be
too deliciously dangerous…
HERTFORDSHIRE
Miss Georgianna Eleanor Heyford gasped, the folded paper with its elegantly
flowing script fluttering from her fingers to swish against the threadbare
carpet in the drawing room of their home.
“What is it? Have you finally seen Uncle Timothy’s ghost?” her youngest
sister Annabelle chirped, her cherub’s face creasing in a grin. “I told you I’ve
heard him and Mama singing in the attic.”
advertisement ( ads )
--- --- --- --- ---
“It’s not any ghost, Anna. I got the job,” Georgianna whispered, pressing
the flat of her palm over her thumping heart. “I got the job!”
Her sisters were not startled that she’d screamed joyfully, nor did they
celebrate this opportunity, which was a most wonderful dream for
Georgianna. Young ladies from backgrounds such as hers were not meant for
such a role. She laughed, unable to quite process the jumbled slew of
emotions rioting inside her chest. It was surely too much when she had sat on
her bed above stairs only an hour ago, her shoulders weighted with despair
and melancholia, fearing that she had failed her family, who greatly depended
on her abilities and wit.
Slightly dimming her enthusiasm, Georgianna said, “I have secured the job
I’ve been hoping and praying for.”
It was Aunt Thomasina who straightened against the lumpy cushions of the
sofa and replied, “It’s not right for a genteel miss like yourself to be working.
It is just not right! I’ve told you girls to come and live with me in Kent and
leave…” Her aunt looked about the house they had grown up in their entire
lives with an acute expression of distaste. “Leave this place. I cannot imagine
why you girls insist on holding onto it! If the manor is sold, there should be
enough money to settle dowries on you and Elizabeth so you girls might
marry suitably.”
Though there was a painful wrench inside her chest, Georgianna smiled
fondly at her aunt. “This is where our memories of Mama and Papa are, and
we do not wish to leave here…leave them, Aunt. This is our home, Papa left
it in my care, and we shall not give up on it.”
Aunt Thomasina’s mouth flattened. “Working is beyond the pale for a miss
of your station!”
Her disapprobation expressed, Aunt Thomasina went back to reading
Frankenstein. Georgianna swallowed a groan. Ever since her aunt became
Baroness Crawley a couple years prior, everything her relatives did was
beyond the pale. Georgianna’s father had been a proper country gentleman
with a distant relationship to a baronet. He had taught all his children the
value of working to fulfill the dreams in their hearts and not to be too
elevated in their thoughts, which could lead to an excessive, silly nature.
For More Read Download This Book
EPUB
advertisement ( ads )
-------------
