6/21/2023 0 Comments Our lady of pain marion chesney![]() ![]() When she announced her engagement to him. Cordelia had caught the attention of a rich neighbor, Charles, Lord Bentley. Cordelia was a strong-willed beauty, impatient with the new regime of poverty. ![]() their late father’s sister.Īt the time of their mother’s death, Cordelia was eighteen and Harriet eleven. Harriet and her elder sister, Cordelia, were left in the charge of an elderly spinster aunt, Miss Rebecca Clifton. always weak and ailing, had followed her husband to the grave two short months later. had been an inveterate gambler, and when he had died of typhoid, he had left his wife only a small annuity to go with the great mansion. The house was all that was left of the once great Clifton fortune. Harriet lived a life of genteel poverty in a large, rambling house on the outskirts of the village of Lower Maxton in the county of Brent. For that spring was to be the turning point in her young life. It was a very cold spring one that Harriet Clifton was to remember for the rest of her life. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.įirst electronic edition published 2011 by RosettaBooks LLC, New York. Cover art to the electronic edition copyright © 2011 by RosettaBooks, LLCĪll rights reserved. ![]()
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