The Wicked Ways of a Duke
Chapter One
Duke of St. Cyres sinks to new depths of depravity!
Peeking beneath young ladies' skirts at charity balls?
We are appalled.
-Talk of the Town, 1894
Miss Prudence Bosworth's opinion of the incident in
question would prove somewhat different from that of the
society papers, but during the evening itself, she was
unaware of what the scandal sheet scribblers would have
to say and too busy to care. The goings-on of dukes,
depraved or not, was of no concern to her.
For weeks now, she and the seamstresses under her at
Madame Marceau's had been frantically making up gowns
for the fashionable young ladies coming to London for
the season, and at the moment, one of those gowns had a
hem in need of repair. If Lady Alberta Denville would
only stand still.
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