The Rake: Lessons in LoveA Regency romp about a young lady who vows revenge on the rakish lord who loved and left her, only to find herself unexpectedly caught in Cupid′s net along with the handsome viscount when her plan to love and leave him backfires. |
Contents
Section 13 | 179 |
Section 14 | 195 |
Section 15 | 215 |
Section 16 | 232 |
Section 17 | 249 |
Section 18 | 272 |
Section 19 | 285 |
Section 20 | 308 |
Section 9 | 106 |
Section 10 | 126 |
Section 11 | 142 |
Section 12 | 160 |
Section 21 | 325 |
Section 22 | 345 |
Section 23 | 363 |
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Page 196 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness, and humility : But when the blast of war...
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Page 91 - The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices • Make instruments to plague us.
Page 13 - Fair is foul, and foul is fair. —Macbeth, Act I, Scene i Tristan Carroway, Viscount Dare, looked up from the London Times as the brass knocker banged against his front door.
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