A House Called Pleasance

A House Called Pleasance
ISBN-10
0525128026
ISBN-13
9780525128021
Category
Romance fiction
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
1978
Publisher
Dutton Adult
Author
Laura Conway

Description

Your ladyship saw fit to sell the property that your parents left you , for you knew that if my father died first there was the Dower House here to which you would retire ; though doubtless it would suit you well if I married Sir Hugh ...

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