The Daring Duchess
Chapter One
1819
Sir Neville Fortescue later thought that his whole life changed after he accidentally overheard two
of his supposed friends talking about him at Lady Leominster's ball.
"Fortescue," Frank Hollis proclaimed to Henry Latimer. "Oh, no, I shouldn't trouble to ask
Fortescue to make up the party for the Coal Hole. He's not a bad fellow, reliable and respectable,
but dull, damned dull. Never put a foot wrong in his life. Virtue its own reward and all that. It bores
me just to think of him, never mind doing the hobnob bit. He can neither hob nor nob."
"Slow and steady often wins the race, you know." "Depends on what race you're running in. He's
spent five years in Parliament and he's not left the starting gate yet. No, let's forget him and talk
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