Essex Sisters Quartet
Avon
December 2006
On Sale: November 28, 2006
Featuring: The Earl of Mayne; Josie Essex
416 pages ISBN: 0060781920 EAN: 9780060781927 Kindle: B000MAH7D6 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
Griselda was wearing the daring crimson gown that Madame
Barbet delivered for her. In fact, in some ways Josie
hardly recognized her chaperone. When they first met, two
years ago, Griselda was the quintessential pretty, English
gentlewoman. She dressed with the exquisite propriety of a
widow interested in two kinds of reputation: that of
sexual propriety, and that of good taste. She was a merry,
adorable person who showed no interest in the opposite
sex, other than a fervent wish to discuss their foibles.
In point of fact, while she generally had a beau or two
hanging in her rear, they were often foolish young men,
good for nothing but bleating poetry and providing an arm
on the way into supper.
But somehow in the last few months, Griselda had changed.
Josie couldn’t quite put her finger on it. But as she
glanced back, waiting for her chaperone, she was fully
aware that her chaperone would be the least chaperone-like
woman in the room. Of course, Griselda had always had a
delightful little figure. But Madame Barbet’s crimson
dress was fashioned in such a way that swathes of dark
crimson came over the shoulders and cross – but they
didn’t actually meet until almost Griselda’s waist. Now
that was a gown that a debutante could not wear.
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