Princess Daisy by Judith Krantz

Author:Judith Krantz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Contemporary Women, Media Tie-In, Fiction
ISBN: 9780307803481
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1979-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

When Hamilton Short, a shrewd, tough real-estate manipulator, made his first, second and third million he put them in treasury bonds and forgot about them. At forty-two, already paunchy and bald, his tenth million safely behind him, he had little trouble in convincing Topsy Mullins, a timidly luscious eighteen-year-old from an ancient but impoverished Virginia family, to marry him. During the next eight years, as business took the Shorts to Dallas, Miami and Chicago to live, Topsy produced three children, all girls, and Ham produced more millions; by his estimate he was worth twenty-five million, and the real-estate business had never been better.

Topsy had gone to a famous horsy finishing school on the last remnants of her family’s money, and there she had met many New York and Long Island girls from rich, social families. She had followed their careers in fashion magazines and society columns with biting envy. She had married for money and all it had brought her was three pregnancies and fleeting acquaintances in three, to her, provincial cities. The only way to really be a part of the fashionable world was to be considered fashionable in New York City—other places didn’t exist on Topsy’s narrow horizon.

However, she had a clear-eyed idea of just how difficult it was for strangers to be launched in New York life, particularly a stranger who could claim only a few schoolgirl friendships, long faded, and whose husband was hardly an asset to a dinner party. She resolved to make her assault on New York from her home territory, from Virginia where her family was known and respected. She decided that an estate in the heart of the thousand square miles that make up Northern Virginia’s Hunt Country was the answer; it would take the curse off new money. When Ham was informed by Topsy that it was time for them to buy a place in Middleburg, a town of 833 people, lop-sidedly, if conveniently, divided into two groups, millionaires and servants, there was more than restlessness in her words. He heard the unmistakable indication that only a considerable, a very considerable establishment in Middleburg, would guarantee that Ham Short’s marriage would continue to run in the comfortable, well-ordered and convenient way he had learned to take for granted.

At twenty-five, Topsy’s early promise had ripened into decided beauty. Seven years of marriage, with only the birth of children to disturb her concentration on herself, had polished her chestnut-haired, hazel-eyed prettiness until it gleamed. The large breasts, wide hips, and tiny waist that had first caught Ham Short’s eyes were as appealing as ever. Even if he rarely bothered to appreciate them now, he certainly didn’t want any domestic problems. He was not a sensual man, a quick fuck every week or two was all he asked, but he insisted on peace and quiet at home while he worked on more millions. Middleburg or Miami, it made no difference to him, as long as Topsy would stop complaining about their lack of social life.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.