The Phoenix Of Love. Susan Schonberg
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Название: The Phoenix Of Love
Автор: Susan Schonberg
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Историческая литература
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Pulling the pieces of her dignity around her like a cloak, Lady Raleigh replied as fervently as she could, “He’s dead, thank heaven!”
When the marquis made no move to back away from her, she explained, “He died when Olivia was twelve years old. After that, she came to live with me. She has no other family.” Lady Raleigh tried to still her quaking knees as she stared bravely into the marquis’s fearsome visage.
Traverston’s features were so still that his face might have been etched from stone. “Then it would appear, madam, I was correct. Olivia was never informed of our marriage.” He backed away as quickly as he had stalked her.
As Lady Raleigh’s courage began to seep back into her bones, she confronted the marquis with the obvious question. “But how could Olivia go through a marriage ceremony and not realize what was happening?”
One corner of his mouth twitched up in a slightly mocking smile and he replied enigmatically, “You had to have been there.”
Both parties were silent. Lady Raleigh was appalled by the marquis’s words. Desperately, grasping at any straw to extricate her granddaughter from this horrible mess, she jumped on the dim possibility looming in the back of her mind. “I don’t suppose your lordship could produce proof of this wedding?”
The sound the grim man made sounded very much like a snort. “I don’t happen to have the papers with me right at this moment, my lady,” he remarked with ill-concealed and bitter amusement, “but it wouldn’t take more than a minute to locate them at my solicitor’s. Hardly enough time to postpone the inevitable, I should think, from your point of view. Still, I’d be happy to send him round with them on the morrow. I wouldn’t want you to harbor any doubts.”
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