The Duke's Sweetheart
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By Richard Dowling 15 Sep, 2020
[...] "Yes; but, Charlie, I insist upon Lady Clarinda marrying Sir Gabriel." "Oh, nonsense! The public would not have it." "You must really change it. Why should a young girl like that run away with a red-headed foreigner? She would never have done i ... Read more
[...] "Yes; but, Charlie, I insist upon Lady Clarinda marrying Sir Gabriel." "Oh, nonsense! The public would not have it." "You must really change it. Why should a young girl like that run away with a red-headed foreigner? She would never have done it." "That's the new plan, dear. You can't have your hero too wild or your heroine too ugly; for men as a rule are bad, and women are not all as lovely as you, and it flatters bad men and ugly women to find bad men and ugly women heroes and heroines."[...].  Less
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Richard Dowling (3 June 1846 – 28 July 1898) was an Irish novelist. Dowling was born in southern Ireland in 1846. He worked with a group of Irish writers producing a paper called Zolius. He moved...
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