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What she did then made the Duke of Villiers actually cry out

And those eyes, the eyes he hid froold thread…they were almost black with desire and yet he never closed the down at hierous about you," he said suddenly, a few shuddering asped

"You see me too clearly" He flipped her over in one smooth erous, Eleanor, Lady Eleanor"

It erous for other reasons than her own desire

"My Eleanor," he whispered

And she didn’t correct hi the same tune, and there was no need to speak about it

Chapter Twenty-six

Knole House, country residence of the Duke of Gilner

June 21, 1784

By the nextLisette had lost interest in the treasure hunt The piles of paper had disappeared At luncheon she airily announced that the housekeeper would be handling all the rest of the details, from the children’s whereabouts, to the refreshments, to the--

"All of it," she said, with a wave of her hand "I shall spend the day in the nursery with Phyllinda and Lucinda"

"Those are not their names," Villiers said with a distinct chill in his voice "Mrs Minche," Lisette said, reasonably enough "The girls do not seem to know other names"

"Villiers, you can perform a truly paternal action," Anne put in "You can naot up and left the room

"I positively detest such bad manners," Lisette said

Eleanor detested the pain she’d seen in Leopold’s eyes

"I have half a mind not to uerite returns this afternoon and I doubt she will be pleased"

"What will your father say?" Eleanor asked

Lisette hunched a shoulder "He won’t be pleased either"

"Don’t they wish for you to marry?"

"No" Lisette pushed her potatoes to the side "They don’t"

"Because…because of what happened years ago?" Eleanor thought back to the scandal that had ended her mother’s visits to the estate, and coincided with the ton’s perception of Lisette’soff on a tangent, as she ont to do