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"Damn," she said Quietly, but she said it

"A lady ears?" He had that nored him "How old is Tobias?"

"Thirteen I recently found Violet, who is six, living in a brothel I believe she is too young to knohat lay in wait for her She is untouched"

Eleanor shuddered "Horrible"

"Colin is eleven years old, and had been apprenticed to a weaver"

"That’s three…where are the others? And where are their rimly, "I offered to take the children away froht that they would be better off under ht be under the care of a courtesan"

"The irony is rather distressing"

"One of those mothers refused; Genevieve lives with her mother in Surrey"

"So Genevieve is well"

"Yes My solicitor had ceased to pay support for the child, but her ed to scrape by"

"In her for in washing"

There was so quite hard about his voice, the kind of hardness that concealed deep shauessed Since he deserved every ounce of that sha pleasantries

"So that’s Tobias, Genevieve, Colin, and Violet What fanciful names There are two more? Why haven’t you fetched the why he was at the ball at all, under the circuirls And I’ve been looking"

"You can’t find the for theinally cared for them, but she has no idea where they were taken She was e It turns out there are a greatnumber of twins"

"Surely…their surnae?"

"My solicitor, Tee Apparently that is common practice, as it does not allow the nurse to appeal directly to the father, who prefers to ignore the child’s existence"

She sighed and walked back up the stairs The air was tooshe needed was for her inadequately powdered hair to start curling in all directions

Villiers kept pace with her, his long legs sending hi that twins of approxie of Sevenoaks, in Kent"

"Lady Lisette Elys, daughter of the Duke of Gilner, lives nearby and reat deal of ith the poor"

"How…" He paused "How odd I had considered paying a visit to the duke"

She said the obvious "Lisette is the only other eligible duke’s daughter of whoiven that eny is quite rare, and when one is shopping for a wife, one ought to inspect all the availableme to pay a visit to the Gilner estate?" he asked curiously