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Venetia: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

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nor did she cherish illusions about her love: not for him the life of a celibate, mourning his lost bride: he was very much more likely to seek forgetfulness in excess, and would probably be next heard of flaunting some dazzling lightskirt all over Europe. …any day now Aubrey would leave the Priory, and then, Venetia thought, he would be lost to her indeed. Chapter 13, in which Damerel fiercely declares his love and Venetia is unperturbed by this statement of the obvious. Fair Fatality, you are the most unusual female I have ever encountered in all my thirty-eight years!" "You can't think how deeply flattered I am!" she assured him. "I daresay my head would be quite turned if I didn't suspect that amongst so many a dozen or so may have slipped from your memory." "More like a hundred. Am I never to learn your name?"

See, the guy who was forceful the first time he met Venetia, has really a heart of gold and deserves sympathy and open-mindedness, Venetia just has a feeling about him after one conversation, even though he behaved like a debauched slut for years.

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I started reading Georgette Heyer when I was a teenager, some thirty five years ago, when my mother gave me Friday's Child and told me she thought I would enjoy it. Since then I have read all the romances, a number of them countless times. They have long been the books I turn to when I'm feeling unwell, a bit fragile, or when it's cold and wet and I need a comfort read! Did you indeed? Well, if that is the way you mean to conduct yourself amongst the village maidens you won’t win much liking here!”

Damerel: HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA OEDIPUS!!! But it's the other way around honey, YOU won't turn out to be MY mother! When I start to mutter in French, it hints the book must've made an impression. And, dear me, this one did. How could it not? It's very intense for the average Heyer novel, a writer that normally shies away from overt sexiness as a scalded cat from water. A good timing it had, too, for I was on the edge of losing faith in this author's capacity to create masculine characters as interesting as Monseigneur and heroines that weren't behaving like stoopid ten-year-old schoolgirls at the ripe old age of, say, twenty. Of course you don’t, love – and I must own I wish Oswald had found himself unable to do so. I wonder what excuse Edward will offer us for this visit? Surely there cannot have been another Royal marriage, or General Election?’

He hunched an impatient shoulder, and replied contemptuously: ‘You don’t understand, and it’s a waste of time to try to make you.’ The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author. If I was writing the epilogue it would be thus: a pregnant with her 4th child Venetia going on one of her Lizzy’s walks in the fields and encountering the angry father of the ravished and now pregnant milkmaid, third this year. In other words, she’s destined to be another Dolly Oblonskaya. Chapter 9, in which Venetia jumps from a loft, Oswald loses hold of his senses and showers her with kisses, Damerel adroitly dampens these boyish enthusiasms, and I smile from ear to ear.

Oh, oh—! My reputation, Iago, my reputation!” he exclaimed, laughing again. “Fair Fatality, you are the most unusual female I have encountered in all my thirty-eight years!” The only fault Mrs. Hendred had to find in the news was that the Queen should have chosen to die on the 17th instead of the 18th November, for the 17th was the day fixed for the ball she was giving in Venetia's honour. Few things could have been more provoking. Venetia had been born with a zest for life ... and a high courage that enabled her to look hazards in the face and not shrink from encountering them.As a result, I was reading this book for a month and in the end I could finish it by skimming to the finale. ht speak his name a dozen times and still win no response. It did not occur to him that such absorption made him a poor companion. It occurred forcibly to Venetia, but since she had long since recognised that he was quite as selfish as his father or his brother she was able to accept his odd ways with perfect equanimity, and to go on holding him in affection without suffering any of the pangs of disillusionment. Byron!’ Aubrey ejaculated, with one of his impatient shrugs. ‘I don’t know how you can read such stuff!’ When Venetia's older brother's wife and mother-in-law, about whom he had failed to inform the family, descend on the Lanyons, Venetia's domestic situation becomes intolerable and she is invited to stay for a London season with her aunt and uncle as a way to escape the awkwardness and also to find a husband. During this time, she discovers through a chance encounter that the mother she had been led to believe was dead is actually very much alive and had simply left her father for another man when the children were very young. Venetia realises that this is the cause of her relatives' over-protectiveness - they are concerned that she might follow in her mother's footsteps. Venetia: (Ohhhh boy, here he goes again!) Why don't you just kiss me again and stop acting like such a stoopid??!

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