6 Quotes by Catherine Lloyd

It isn't fair, Anna. I have all the responsibilities of the lady of the house, and none of the power. Mrs. Fielding knows I can't get rid of her unless Papa is agreeable. She treats me with no respect at all.""I know," Anna agreed. "She is positively uncivil to you.""I will have to speak to him." Lucy stopped walking. "He won't like it but I refuse to be treated like this.

The study smelled of brandy, saddle leather, and the bay rum her father's valet used after he shaved him. She glanced at the rows of books and imagined herself in Anthony's place being tutored for Cambridge. Her father always said she was far too intelligent for a girl, but he'd never stopped her from reading any of the books she requested, even the slightly scandalous ones.

No man liked to be corrected, especially by a woman. It was better to make one's point, and leave the gentleman to make up his own mind where he could convince himself that it was all his own idea after all.

The general opinion was that young girls were flighty and far too eager to forget their responsibilities and disobey their elders.

In the distance, the squat tower of the Norman church that divided his property from the village proper stood stark against the night sky. There was a path from the side of Kurland Hall that led directly to the church and the boxed pew his family had occupied for Sunday worship for generations. Not that he believed in God anymore, but appearances had to be maintained.

But Lucy!" exclaimed her sister Anna. "He was wounded fighting for his king and country at Waterloo. You can hardly expect him to be pleasant.