Blaze Wyndham by Bertrice Small EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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The four girls, well hidden behind the shrubbery on the far side of the
driveway that faced Ashby Hall, had a fine view of the elegant visitor
although they could hear nothing that was said between him and their
father.
“Who is he, do you think?” wondered Bliss Morgan, tossing her blond
hair back from her face as she spoke.
“He is most divinely handsome even if he is old,” noted her identical twin
sister. Blythe’s daffodil-colored hair seemed always perfectly coiffed.
“Maybe he’s a suitor come for one of us,” said Delight Morgan in a
hopeful tone. Her deep blue eyes, so like their father’s, sparkled with eager
anticipation.
“Ohh, Dee, don’t be so foolish!” Bliss snapped at the younger girl
irritably, causing her face to fall. “Look at the man! His clothes are of the
very best materials, and that gold chain around his neck is worth enough to
dower us all quite respectably. None of us has so much as a dried pea for a
portion. Without a dowry we’ve little hope of making any kind of a decent
marriage. We’ll be lucky if we end up as farmers’ wives.”
“Aye,” echoed her twin mournfully. “We’re all doomed to spinsterhood or
worse. Not even the church will have us.”
“Do you really want to go to the church, Blythe?” drawled the eldest of
them in an amused tone, more than any aware of her sister’s worldly
penchants.
“You know I don’t, Blaze! I want to be married and have children,”
replied Blythe somewhat indignantly.
“What you mean is that you want to be wed to a rich man, little sister,”
said Blaze, her tone somewhat cynical.
“It is just as easy to love a rich man as a poor one,” Bliss pointed out
instantly, defending her sibling. “We are poor, and I do not like it at all. I
think I should enjoy being rich.”
“There is little chance of that,” Blaze retorted with a rueful laugh. “Look
at us, sisters! Look at us in our linen skirts that are too short for us now, and
our way-too-tight bodices. When did any of us ever have something new to
wear?” She sighed almost bitterly.
“Delight’s bodice isn’t too tight,” snipped Bliss, “but then she’s still a
baby yet and not ready for a suitor even if one did come along.”
“Old Ada says my womanhood is close upon me,” Delight hissed
spiritedly at her elder.
“The old woman always knows too,” Blythe said grudgingly. “So then
there are four of us ready for marriage. To what purpose? Ahh, how sad to
have naught!”
“We have each other,” Blaze replied, recovering from her bout of self-pity
first.
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