The Duke's Sweetheart
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
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[...] "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