Search For a Wife by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-78213-113-7
Publisher: Barbara Cartland.com

CHAPTER FIVE

The Marquis rose early, had an excellent breakfast and then bade farewell to the publican and his wife.

“I have enjoyed being with you and I shall hope to come again,” he stated.

“We’ve liked havin’ you ever so much,” the wife said. “As I says to me ’usband, you be a real gentleman, that’s what you be.”

The Marquis smiled.

“That is a compliment I appreciate.”

He tied his bags onto Firefly and then set off from the back of the inn.

There were fields that had not been cultivated and Firefly was able to gallop over them and he only calmed down after travelling for quite a long way.

Keeping to the fields the Marquis moved steadily North, thinking that it would be interesting to see a part of England he knew little about and few of his friends came from the Northern Counties.

It was a warm day and the sun was bright but it was not too hot to be uncomfortable.

He thought it would have been pleasant if there was someone he could talk to and discuss the events since he left Milverton Hall.

He had learnt quite a lot about people in whom he had never been previously interested.

Yet there had been no sign of the beautiful young woman he was really searching for.

‘If I go home empty-handed,’ he mused, ‘I shall be back arguing with my relatives about marriage. I cannot face that sort of conversation again.’

However it was bound to happen, unless by some miracle he found the rainbow the Duke sincerely believed was waiting for him.

He was feeling hungry when finally he reached a small village rather like the one he had just left, but the inn was kept by an old man and thus there was no chance of a cooked luncheon.

The Marquis was therefore obliged to make a meal of a cheese sandwich that was only just edible, butter that was questionable and bread that was undoubtedly stale and he washed it all down with some quite decent cider and he was lucky to have a cup of coffee that was drinkable.

“What is the next village or town to this place?” he asked the ancient publican.

“There be a small town not too far away,” the man answered, “and you’ll find if you wants to stay the night, there be quite a decent ’otel there.”

The Marquis thought this was a good idea and he rode on on an empty road finding it slightly boring.

It was nearly six o’clock when he saw the roofs and spire of a town ahead of him. It was, he thought, a typical town that no one would visit unless they were interested in something local that was either bred or manufactured there.

He was to find out later that he was right and the town specialised in saddling, but there were few shops and they did not contain anything particularly interesting.

When he came to the hotel he could see that it was a hard ugly looking building of four floors and there was some not very adequate stabling behind it.

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