Then she meets the attractive and dangerous Lord Robert Lethbridge and her days suddenly become more exciting. As her new husband’s attentions fall elsewhere, Horry begins to feel increasingly unhappy. Hers was a marriage made not in heaven but in the coolly logical mind of a very self-possessed young woman. Theirs was a convenient marriage, she was only saving her sister from a loveless match, rescuing her family fortune, and providing herself with a life of ease. He agrees, and dazzling Horatia marries the powerful Earl of Rule. Everyone knows Horry isn’t that beauty and has a stutter, but she’ll do her best to keep out of the Earl’s way and make him a good wife. He has lots of money but they have an old family line. Lizzie’s younger sister Horatia conceives a dazzling plan to avert a nuptial disaster, and offers herself, since he really wants to marry into this family. Beauty Lizzie Winwood already is promised to Edward Heron, an also impoverished military, who she loves, but the wealthy Earl of Rule wants her as his wife. When Lord Marcus Drelincourt, Earl of Rule, offers for the hand of the oldest and prettiest sister of the Winwood Family, he has no notion of the distress he causes his intended.
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