Courting Julia by Mary Balogh

Author:Mary Balogh [Balogh, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780451177391
Google: VoQEAAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0451177398
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Goodreads: 690071
Publisher: Signet
Published: 1993-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

bled. "He gives me plenty, Freddie, but he gives you more, I know. And you will inherit when Papa dies."

"Which may be a long time in the future," Frederick said. "Which I hope will be a long time in the future. In the meantime we both have to live. And you know that Papa is not the sort of person to whom one goes to ask for more blunt. For one thing it would be humiliating. And for another he would assume that sorrowful look he always used to have when we were lined up for canings. As if we had disappointed him beyond measure. As if the whipping was going to hurt him more than it hurt us. Gad, Les, he knows how to make one abject with guilt and misery."

"You really do have big debts, then, Freddie?" Les asked. "They can't be cleared with next quarter's allowance? Even if I give you some of mine?"

Frederick swung down from his horse's back and grinned. "Les," he said, "you can do it almost as well as Papa. Yes, dear brother, I do have big debts. Bigger. And next quarter's allowance has to be lived on. I'm afraid it is debtors' prison for me or Papa's sorrowful look or a political marriage—one of the three. On the whole I think the marriage is the best bet. And the fact that it is to be with Jule makes it a little more palatable than it would otherwise be. Actually the thought of a leg shackle is enough to make me break out in a cold sweat."

Lesley slid from his horse's back a little more slowly. "I think you should go to Papa, Freddie," he said. "He won't eat you, you know. And you are too old for a caning. Then you would be free."

Frederick laughed and handed the reins of his horse to a waiting groom. If Les only knew, he thought, how much of a dent the paying of his debts would put even in their father's fortune. "Until next time," he said. "I am afraid I have a compulsive and rather expensive habit, Les. Though my luck could change any day and I could end up as rich as Croesus. That is a pleasant thought to dream on, now is it not?"

"I don't think you should marry Jule," Lesley said, relin-

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