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A Gentleman in Love

by Barbara Cartland

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After a rash argument in White's Club, Sir Denzil Caversham is embroiled in a duel, which ends in his accidentally killing his foe, a well-known member of Society, and he is forced into exile for three years in America. His absence leaves his ailing wife impoverished, so their beautiful daughter, Thalia, decides to rescue the family by working at a fashionable milliner's shop serving the tastes of the ladies of London's Beau Monde. Under the assumed name of 'Thalia Carver', she catches the eye of the dashing and handsome Earl of Hellingham, who is instantly determined to make her his mistress and offers her endless inducements and she refuses them all. The Earl has no idea who Thalia really is, nor that she is the anonymous author of a provocative book poking fun at the 'English Gentleman' that is the talk of the Social World and all the Gentleman's Clubs of St. James's. At first appalled by the Earl's advances, Thalia is soon irresistibly drawn by his magnificent magnetism and his underlying tenderness. But, as love blossoms in her heart, she knows that it can never be. The Earl must never find out the true identity of the milliner's work girl who has stolen his heart.… (more)
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A Gentleman in Love is #116 in the Bantam series and was published in February 1980. It is the story of Thalia, who is a milliner while she and her mother wait for her exiled father to return to England. She meets the Earl of Hellington in the dressing room of an actress and he becomes intrigued with her. Find out what happens next in this romantic story from Barbara Cartland! ( )
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After a rash argument in White's Club, Sir Denzil Caversham is embroiled in a duel, which ends in his accidentally killing his foe, a well-known member of Society, and he is forced into exile for three years in America. His absence leaves his ailing wife impoverished, so their beautiful daughter, Thalia, decides to rescue the family by working at a fashionable milliner's shop serving the tastes of the ladies of London's Beau Monde. Under the assumed name of 'Thalia Carver', she catches the eye of the dashing and handsome Earl of Hellingham, who is instantly determined to make her his mistress and offers her endless inducements and she refuses them all. The Earl has no idea who Thalia really is, nor that she is the anonymous author of a provocative book poking fun at the 'English Gentleman' that is the talk of the Social World and all the Gentleman's Clubs of St. James's. At first appalled by the Earl's advances, Thalia is soon irresistibly drawn by his magnificent magnetism and his underlying tenderness. But, as love blossoms in her heart, she knows that it can never be. The Earl must never find out the true identity of the milliner's work girl who has stolen his heart.

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Thalia walked slowly across the lawn, through a rose garden, to the lily pond. "It is a place for lovers," she thought instinctively. Then she drew her breath as if the thought stabbed her like a sharp dagger.

"You are not crying, Thalia?" came an unexpected voice. It was the Earl of Hellington, standing beside her, his grey eyes holding her captive. Then he pulled her into his arms, holding her close against him. She was trembling with the ecstasy he had evoked in her and she thought he was trembling too. Then he was kissing her wildly, passionately, and a fire leapt within them both, until Thalia seemed to break under the strain of it and she hid her face against his shoulder. ''How soon will you marry me?" he asked at last.
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