The Uppity Earl--A Regency Romance by Marilyn Clay

Author:Marilyn Clay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sweet clean wholesome Regency romances, Clean proper traditional Regency romances, Traditional sweet clean Regency romances, Clean romantic comedy Regency romances, Traditional clean sweet wholesome historical fiction, Jane Austen - Georgette Heyer - Mary Jo Putney - Patricia RIce, jenni james - joan smith - sheri cobb south - rebecca connelly - carola dunn, Hanna Hamilton - Ashley Gardner - Heidi Ashworth - Eleanor Meyers - Bree Wolf
Publisher: Marilyn Clay
Published: 2017-08-06T00:00:00+00:00

DRIVING HOME FROM THE ball that night, Lord Penwyck was again caught up in what he feared was becoming an obsessive fascination with the intriguing Miss Darby.

As usual, she was not behaving as expected. Most every young lady who had just made her debut in as spectacular a fashion as Miss Darby would be as atremble with excitement as the evening drew to a close as she had been for the weeks preceding it.

But Miss Darby was huddled in one corner of the dimly lit coach, her somewhat crumpled satin cloak drawn tightly about her shoulders as she stared . . . one might even say sullenly stared . . . from the coach window into the night.

It was Penwyck's mother who was nattering mindlessly on and on and on about the thrilling events of the evening.

"I declare I never expected Gracie to actually have the servants' heads shaved! But how better to display the brightly coloured feather headdresses? And where do you suppose she got all those exquisite feathers? I don't doubt she had them imported. We shall simply have to throw a lovely dinner party, or several dinner parties, for Gracie and Charles. I declare, this evening was a stupendous success. Tessa darling, you were splendid! Both the Princess Esterhazy and the Countess Lieven were in raptures over your gown. In fact, everyone demanded to know who made it! You were quite right to refuse the insipid white that most young ladies wear. You looked simply stunning. Did she not look stunning, Penny?"

By way of answer, Penwyck merely cleared his throat, his dark eyes cutting again to the shadowy figure of Miss Darby seated on the coach bench opposite him. Were it not for the fact that her head was still erect, he would think her fast asleep.

Suddenly, he was seized by an almost overpowering urge to take her by the shoulders and shake her. Why did she not behave as other young ladies did? And why did her stubborn refusal to conform irritate him so? It was as if she had some strange hold on him . . . a grip so powerful it compelled him to watch her, to note her every move, to censure her when her actions did not please him and yet, at the same time, he found her lovely and fascinating, and did not wish to change the least thing about her.

It was most confusing and most irritating. What was worse, his inability to drive the confounded young lady from his thoughts was keeping him awake nights and thoroughly disrupting his days.

As Tessa hurried up the stairs to her bedchamber that night, she couldn't help wondering how very angry Lord Penwyck would be with her once he learned she had helped Deirdre Montgomery run away to be married.

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