Josette by Danielle Thorne

Author:Danielle Thorne
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Regency, Fiction, Historical, General
ISBN: 9781936167319
Publisher: Whimsical Publications
Published: 2010-11-30T23:00:00+00:00

“George asked me to stay and watch over Beddingfield Park,” she confessed.

“You did not really want to join the Navy,” her father teased.

“I wanted to see dolphins and wild monkeys and the breadfruit tree.”

“A wild monkey?” her father repeated with distain, though it was evident he tried not to laugh.

“I love this park, Papa. I just dreamed someday I would get to see what lies beyond it. But it was not meant to be, and I accept it. I would have never made Lieutenant,” she joked with a toss of her chin.

Sir Robert chuckled. “You would have been a prized second son, but you are an irreplaceable first daughter.” His eyes glimmered. “Your brother would have never forgiven me if I bound you here.”

“I suppose that is in Edward's hands now.”

“That is entirely my meaning. You are not in so desperate a position that you must marry by arrangement. Follow your heart.” He motioned toward his study doors, and Josette took it to mean her mother.

“Was Mama your only ambition, Papa?”

“From the first moment I saw her,” he said with a faint smile. “I have reached my aspirations. True, they changed along the way, but I have pursued what has been reasonable and made do where I could not.”

“You are a good sort of man, Papa,” Josette declared. She hopped up from her chair and gave her father a rare hug.

“As is Captain Carter,” he said in a voice muffled through her sleeve.

Josette pitied his discomfort at her affectionate outburst and released him.

“But if you do not fancy the man, then by all means,” Sir Robert motioned toward the bright window, “see to your park while you can until someone changes your mind.”

Josette smiled at him, thanking him with her eyes, for she could not speak.

“Now,” he said after an interlude of silence and with his voice returned to its usual severity, “hurry along, I have my accounts to see to. And close the door on your way out.”

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