A Lord Rotheby's Holiday Bundle
“After the first ball at Turnsley Hall, they had attended some new entertainment or another every evening. In the afternoons, Jane, Sophie, and Charlotte received their gentlemen callers, some of whom occasionally took them for a drive through Hyde Park or for an ice at Gunter’s or strolling through the streets of Mayfair.
All in all, Cousin Henrietta declared Jane a smashing success. Somehow, instead of convincing the beau monde that she was hopelessly vulgar and backward, she was having quite ...the opposite effect. It was a mystery, that. At least as far as Jane was concerned.
Young ladies who were the at the height of fashionable society all wanted to be Jane’s friends because, as Sophie was so fond of telling her, she had the audacity and the courage to say things that everyone else thought but never dared to utter. And gentlemen who were far more eligible than she had ever dreamed would want to associate with her had begun to pay her court. It was all quite overwhelming, to say the least.MoreLess
All in all, Cousin Henrietta declared Jane a smashing success. Somehow, instead of convincing the beau monde that she was hopelessly vulgar and backward, she was having quite ...the opposite effect. It was a mystery, that. At least as far as Jane was concerned.
Young ladies who were the at the height of fashionable society all wanted to be Jane’s friends because, as Sophie was so fond of telling her, she had the audacity and the courage to say things that everyone else thought but never dared to utter. And gentlemen who were far more eligible than she had ever dreamed would want to associate with her had begun to pay her court. It was all quite overwhelming, to say the least.MoreLess
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