The Persuasion of Miss Jane Brody by Hargreaves Isabella

Author:Hargreaves, Isabella [Hargreaves, Isabella]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
ISBN: 9780992385019
Publisher: Steam eReads
Published: 2013-11-25T18:30:00+00:00

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His aunt cornered him in the foyer. “Jonathan,” she said. “What is the meaning of this announcement of your engagement to that bluestocking!”

“Let us go to the library Aunt Lucinda, so that we may talk without an audience,” Dalton warned. He offered her his arm, but she ignored it and steamed to the library unaided. Jonathan ambled in her wake.

She waited on the Indian carpet before his desk, while he followed her into the room, closed the door precisely and took his seat. “Well Aunt Lucinda, do you have something to say to me?” he asked.

“What is the meaning of this announcement?” she asked as she slapped the open paper down onto his desk in front of him.

He looked at her with what he hoped was a steely set to his face. “The announcement has the usual meaning of an engagement notice – that the two parties named will marry in the near future, their lives forever indivisible.”

“Yes,” she said, “I understand that, but why that woman? Of the many young ladies from whom you could choose, you chose her over them all? I am incredulous. She is a nobody, but worse than that, a nobody with some dangerous, no, quite ludicrous, opinions about the rights of women.”

Jonathan lost all feelings of amusement. “I advise you Aunt Lucinda, do not say anything more in criticism of my future wife.”

“I will say whatever I think fit!” she responded.

“If you wish to be received in this house again, I advise you to say no more.” His made his voice more chilling.

Obviously seeing his look and finally understanding his serious intent, she held her fire but began to withdraw from the library speaking as she did so. “You will regret the day you married that bluestocking!”

Lord Dalton stood abruptly and she exited the room swiftly with a loud click of the door latch behind her.

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