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    Good Lady Ducayne
    Good Lady Ducayne
    Good Lady Ducayne
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    Good Lady Ducayne

    By M. E. Braddon

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    M.E. Braddon was a popular British writer during the Victorian Era.  Among Braddon’s best known novels are Lady Audley’s Secret and Aurora Floyd.  This edition of Good Lady Ducayne includes a table of contents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781531264406

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      Good Lady Ducayne - M. E. Braddon

      GOOD LADY DUCAYNE

      ..................

      M.E. Braddon

      KYPROS PRESS

      Thank you for reading. In the event that you appreciate this book, please consider sharing the good word(s) by leaving a review, or connect with the author.

      This book is a work of fiction; its contents are wholly imagined.

      All rights reserved. Aside from brief quotations for media coverage and reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or distributed in any form without the author’s permission. Thank you for supporting authors and a diverse, creative culture by purchasing this book and complying with copyright laws.

      Copyright © 2016 by M.E. Braddon

      Interior design by Pronoun

      Distribution by Pronoun

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Good Lady Ducayne

      Chapter I

      Chapter II

      Chapter III

      Chapter IV

      GOOD LADY DUCAYNE

      ..................

      CHAPTER I

      Bella Rolleston had made up her mind that her only chance of earning her bread and helping her mother to an occasional crust was by going out into the great unknown world as companion to a lady. She was willing to go to any lady rich enough to pay her a salary and so eccentric as to wish for a hired companion. Five shillings told off reluctantly from one of those sovereigns which were so rare with the mother and daughter, and which melted away so quickly, five solid shillings, had been handed to a smartly-dressed lady in an office in Harbeck Street, W., in the hope that this very Superior Person would find a situation and a salary for Miss Rolleston.

      The Superior Person glanced at the two half-crowns as they lay on the table where Bella’s hand had placed them, to make sure they were neither of them forms, before she wrote a description of Bella’s qualifications and requirements in a formidable-looking ledger.

      ‘Age?’ she asked curtly.

      ‘Eighteen, last July.’

      ‘Any accomplishments?’

      ‘No; I am not at all accomplished. If I were I should want to be a governess—a companion seems the lowest stage.’

      ‘We have some highly accomplished ladies on our books as companions, or chaperon companions.’

      ‘Oh, I know!’ babbled Bella, loquacious in her youthful candour. ‘But that is quite a different thing. Mother hasn’t been able to afford a piano since I was twelve years old, so I’m afraid I’ve forgotten how to play. And I have had to help mother with her needlework, so there hasn’t been much time to study.’

      ‘Please don’t waste time upon explaining what you can’t do, but kindly tell me anything you can do,’ said the Superior Person, crushingly, with her pen poised between delicate fingers waiting to write. ‘Can you read aloud for two or three hours at a stretch? Are you active and handy, an early riser, a good walker, sweet tempered, and obliging?’

      ‘I can say yes to all those questions except about the sweetness. I think I have a pretty good temper, and I should be anxious to oblige anybody who paid for my services. I should

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