The Duke's Daughters: Ravenwood's Lady and Lady Brittany's Choice by Amanda Scott

Author:Amanda Scott [Scott, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781480415621
Amazon: B00CE34WKU
Goodreads: 17836408
Publisher: Open Road Media Romance
Published: 2013-05-06T16:00:00+00:00

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“I THINK ALL THIS fascination with babies and lace trimmings so soon after breakfast is prodigiously unnatural,” announced ten-year-old Lady Amalie Leighton, very much upon her dignity as she stood poised for departure in the doorway of the sunny morning room at Malmesbury London House. Idly fingering the dark-blue sash of her white muslin morning frock, she regarded the three other, similarly clad, equally fair-haired occupants of the room for a brief moment before adding with a superior air, “I have more important things to do, I assure you.” When none of the three paid her the slightest heed, she tilted her snub nose an inch higher into the air and stepped into the hall, shutting the tall, narrow doors behind her with a decided snap.

The two eldest of the three young ladies remaining in the room looked up from their reading as though the snap had stirred them to life. Eyes atwinkle, their gazes met.

“Aunt Uffington to the life,” said Lady Arabella Leighton, shaking her head in mock sadness.

“Very like her,” agreed her elder sister, the Lady Brittany, “though perhaps it would not be tactful to point out the fact to Amalie. I wonder what the little one has to do this morning that is so important.”

Lady Arabella wrinkled her small straight nose and tucked a strand of tawny hair more securely behind her right ear. Her gray eyes were still alight with laughter. “Since her horses are all down at Malmesbury Park, I am sure I cannot say. She is so very much like Cicely, you know, for until our dear eldest sister married Ravenwood, you will remember that she also preferred her horses and the country to life here in London. Now, of course, since she expects to be confined in May, I doubt Cicely is riding very much.” But that topic had already been discussed at length—several times, in fact—over the period of time since the exciting news had first come that Viscountess Ravenwood was at last expecting her first child, so Arabella turned her attention back to the March issue of the Ladies’ Monthly Museum, spread across her lap. A moment later, she said, “Only look at this evening dress, Tani,” and pushed the magazine, open to “The Mirror of Fashion,” across to her sister. “Still white and so plain, though it is cut very low ’round the bust.”

Obligingly, Brittany pulled the magazine closer and inspected the full-page illustration, showing two stunning young women, one in morning and one in evening dress. “What a quiz of a hat,” she exclaimed, staring at the former. “Only see how it flops down in the center of the forehead, like a cock’s comb.”

“Not the morning gown,” protested Arabella, “though it is of lead-colored luster and no doubt as dull as the gown depicted for evening wear. I had thought we were to be free of black and white at last. So dull, and not good colors for either of us.”

“True,” her sister agreed, “but that magazine is several weeks old, after all.

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