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    The Repentant Viscount
    The Repentant Viscount
    The Repentant Viscount
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    The Repentant Viscount

    By Suzy Stewart Dubot

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    REGENCY ROMANCE -Timothy Cardan, 6th Viscount Asterley, a veritable bookworm, has been tempted to act out of character and now he is repenting...

    This is a story which touches on the sensitive subject of whether a violated person can forgive (or not) the perpetrator, if he truly repents.
    Not recommended for anyone under 18 as there is a description of the sexual act.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSuzy Stewart Dubot
    Release dateOct 3, 2011
    ISBN9781466085640
    The Repentant Viscount
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    Suzy Stewart Dubot

    An Anglo/American who has lived in France for nearly 40 years, she began writing as soon as she retired. She moved to London in 2012 and spent more than a year there with family. The spring of 2014, she returned to France, Her laptop has never had any trouble following her.Before retiring, she worked at a variety of jobs. Some of the more interesting have been : Art and Crafts teacher, Bartender, Marketing Assistant for N° 1 World Yacht Charterers (Moorings), Beaux Arts Model, Secretary to the French Haflinger Association...With her daughters, she is a vegetarian and a supporter of animal rights! She is also an admirer of William Wilberforce.(If you should read her book 'The Viscount's Midsummer Mistress' you will see that she has devoted some paragraphs to the subject in Regency times.)PLEASE BE KIND ENOUGH TO LEAVE A REVIEW FOR ANY BOOK YOU READ (hers included).

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      The Repentant Viscount - Suzy Stewart Dubot

      The Repentant Viscount

      by

      Suzy Stewart Dubot

      Copyright © 2011 by Suzy Stewart Dubot

      Published with Smashwords

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Smashwords License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Note from the author

      Water closets were invented in the 18th century but were not in general use until much later. The author has, however, taken the liberty of including this convenience in her story as it is fiction and she worries about her characters and their well-being. Please excuse her for this indulgence.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Epilogue

      Chapter 1

      Yorkshire, autumn 1822

      Hours, days, weeks of interminable travel had finally rolled to a shuddering halt. The horse and cart stood before a mansion which would appear austere at its best and ominous the rest of the time. Claire did not realise she was seeing it at its best as the sun set, bathing it in rosy light. Even the sun, however, could not alter its hard, rigorous lines; symmetrical lines without ornamentation, striving for control and achieving it. Peyton Hall, home to Viscount Asterley, towered over her.

      The child she cradled in her arms stirred and nestled closer to Claire’s breast with a sigh, and as much as her arms ached from holding her, she pulled her closer yet, to place a soft kiss on her brow.

      Are you getting down or spending the night there? the driver asked from the tail-end of the cart. His manner was brusque but there was no real meanness meant. She supposed it had been the Viscount who had sent him to pick them up from the coaching inn, because he had asked for her by name, but she had asked him no questions. She had been saving her strength.

      Claire was bone-weary and stiff. There was no way she could descend without disposing of the child first. As she tried to straighten the blanket to receive her charge, the driver had already released her trunk and was pulling it forward and off the end of the cart’s boards. As the trunk tipped off the end, the horse must have sensed the movement because he too moved, causing Claire to lose her balance for an instant. To prevent herself from falling on the child, she gripped the side of the cart and felt it cut into her fingers. It was a freak occurrence which had her on the border of tears, more from frustration than from the pain — the final aggravation at the end of a long tedious journey.

      She withheld the sob which threatened to escape and quickly moved to the end of the cart to get down. The driver’s attitude had softened a little. Had he seen her stalwart attempt to remain dignified after a difficult trip, or was it her grace captured in an appealing body which had affected him? Whatever, he offered her a hand saying,

      Here, let me help you down.

      She took it gratefully as her legs ached too.

      Thank you, driver.

      At the last minute, he changed his mind and seized her around the waist and lowered her gently, steadying her until she was balanced once again. She wouldn’t have thought him capable of the gesture, because he had to be in his sixties and wasn’t very tall,

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