The Wedding Caper by Jo Ann Ferguson

Author:Jo Ann Ferguson [Ferguson, Jo Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-21T05:00:00+00:00

her tattered bonnet down to shadow her features. “I feel sorry for these people.”

“Some of them would not feel sorry for you if they knew who you really are.” He put his arm around her shoulders and held her closer.

As he guided her around broken cobbles, he did not need to remind her to watch what she said and how she said it. This was not the first time she had dressed in such clothes and come with him into the bowels of the city. The last time, her abigail had insisted on washing Priscilla’s hair over and over until the odors had been battered away by the soap.

“Watch where yer goin’, twit,” snarled Neville with a low accent that seemed natural. He pushed aside a drunken man who had almost walked into them.

The man lumbered into the broken railing on a set of steps. When his feet went out beneath him and he landed hard on a riser, he grinned and held out his hand in fingerless gloves. “A tonic, old chap?”

Neville shook his head. “If I ’ad a ’alfpenny, I’d be spendin’ it on m’self and m’lady.”

“Lady?” The drunkard laughed, blowing fumes of cheap gin in their direction. “Yer doxy be a fair one, but a lady she is not.” He crooked a finger. “Come ’ere, m’pretty one, and lift yer skirts fer me. I can pay ye far better than that clutch-fisted chap.”

“Ye don’t ’ave as much as a tonic,” she retorted, tilting her chin with feigned pride as she hoped her fake accent would not make anyone question that she belonged on these streets. She linked her arm with Neville’s. “Come along, dearie. I ’aven’t got all day, ye know.”

“Come back later when yer done with ’im,” called the foxed man. “Mayhap I will be ’fore the wind then, and I will show ye wot a real man be like.”

Priscilla swallowed a chuckle when she heard

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