Sea Scoundrel by Annette Blair

Author:Annette Blair [Blair, Annette]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Amazon: B0082CA0Z8
Publisher: Annette Blair
Published: 2012-05-09T21:00:00+00:00

The fol owing evening, ensconced in a large leather chair before the fire at White’s, cigar smoke curling about his head, Grant sipped his brandy and read his paper, his attention caught by an article decrying appal ing working conditions in England’s mil s.

“A hundred pounds for Grace,” he heard, and Grant chafed at the enthusiastic betting, though it was quite routine, so he shifted and concentrated on his article.

“Double to form a dal iance with Sophie.” Child labor. Poor working conditions. Not in his mill.

“Rose is the beauty.”

By God, they were a noisy lot— Grant raised his gaze.

Rose, Sophie? He shot from his chair. “Damnation!” Men moved aside as Grant made for the betting book direct. Oh, they’d attract men al right, but the wrong kind and for the wrong reasons.

He read down the list of bets searching for one particular name. And there it was. The man who could get Lady Patience Kendal to don britches and ride astride through Hyde Park at five p.m. would win two thousand pounds.

Patience had liked to ride astride through the Arundel countryside; she told him so. And she must have told the girls. “Bloody hel !”

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