![]() She wanted to sink through the floor at that moment, but it was to get worse still. ![]() ![]() The clerk had the grace to look abashed, but it really was not the poor man's fault that Lord and Lady Snowdale had cut Arabella, elbowing past her and taking her place at the counter. The couple at the glass display counter turned and glared. "I believe this lady was first," he said in a loud, booming voice, as if he had had to make himself heard often over long distances. ![]() And with shoulders that would make Weston weep. But he was much taller, over the six foot mark, surely, by at least a few inches. He was the tallest man she had ever seen, and she was of no mean height herself, for a lady. With one swift, heartbroken glance at the stiff couple who had pushed in front of her at the counter, she turned. Her maid, looking confused, placed the gloves her mistress had intended to buy down on the polished countertop.Īrabella, quivering from mortification, steeled herself to go. "Annie, we must leave," she whispered through clenched teeth. ![]() This was the worst thing that had ever happened to her, even including hearing that her father was dead, for after all, she had barely known the old man, though he had professed a careless affection for her on the few occasions when she did spend a day or two at Swinley Manor as a girl. Biting her lip to keep the tears from coming, the Honorable Miss Arabella Swinley, daughter of Baron Swinley, deceased four long years before, stood in the shop with her head held high. ![]()
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