Pleasure for Pleasure by Eloisa James

Author:Eloisa James [James, Eloisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, Historical, Regency
ISBN: 9780060781927
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2005-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

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From The Earl of Hellgate, Chapter the Seventeenth

I name her, Dear Reader, after one of Shakespeare’s fairies, for she was as elusive and sweet to me as one of those sprites. You will loathe me for the truth of it…but when I beheld her gentle countenance, I burned with the desire to possess her. And yet marry her I could not…she was married to a worthy burgher. I tremble as I write the words:The bonds of matrimony did not stop me.

L ucius Felton’s box at Ascot was, without doubt, the most luxurious on the grounds. The King’s box was a rather simple structure, lined in red velvet, and boasting chairs that were uncomfortably thronelike. But Felton had decided to take a box at Ascot only after he married, and he had a particular fondness for enclosed racing boxes. Since there wasn’t one to be had at Ascot, he bribed the manager of the racetrack a fabulous amount—some said it was enough to run the entire operation for the next year—and built himself an elegant little box, with a roof to keep off the sun and rain. It was open along the track, naturally, but it extended far enough back so that there were a few little rooms off it, necessary to a lady’s comfort when her husband (like Mr. Felton) was a devout enthusiast of the track.

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