Remember Me by Mary Balogh EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author:Mary Balogh
- Language: English
- Genre: Victorian Historical Romance
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Lucas Arden, Marquess of Roath, sank into one of the old brown leather
armchairs in the library at Greystone Court in Worcestershire, a glass
of after-dinner port in one hand, and looked around fondly at all the
bookcases crammed with books. He would wager that his grandfather, the
Duke of Wilby, had read most if not all of them. He had read a good many
himself. The library here had always been his favorite room. He looked at
the heavy oak desk before the south window, at the old furnishings and the
Persian carpet, at the heavy brocade curtains and the painting of a hunting
scene in a gilded frame hanging above the mantel. Nothing had been
changed or renewed for as far back as he could remember. He hoped
nothing ever would be.
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His grandfather had changed quite noticeably, however, over the past
couple of years or so. He was no longer just elderly. He was old. It was a
distinction Lucas would be unable to explain in words, but he knew in his
heart what it meant, and it saddened him. His Grace was standing now
before the fire, his back to it, his feet apart, his hands resting palms out
against his backside, warming before the blaze.
He was a small man in both
height and girth—and smaller now, surely, than he had once been—with a
round head that had always seemed too large for his body. His grizzled,
bushy hair, once as dark red as Lucas’s was now, had thinned and even
disappeared altogether from his temples and the crown of his head. His
eyebrows, however, were as thick and shaggy as ever. He was dressed, as
was usual for the evening, in tailed coat, embroidered waistcoat, oldfashioned knee breeches and stockings, and an elaborately folded neckcloth
tied about high, starched shirt points even though there had been no outside
guests for dinner—just the duke and duchess and their grandson and heir.
Lucas waited instead of making any attempt to initiate conversation. His
grandfather had invited him to bring his port into the library rather than sit
with it at the dining table as they usually did. His grandmother had already
moved to the drawing room to leave them alone together.
Obviously His
Grace had something to say that was not for the ears of his butler or the
footman who had waited upon them while they dined. He had probably
been building to this moment since his grandson’s arrival here two days
ago, in fact. Lucas had been invited to spend a week or so over Easter.
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