An Arranged Marriage (1999) About book: OK. This was me at various points in the bookwhen I wasn'tHere's the basic story—maybe you'll see what I mean.Eleanor Chivenham is in a bad situation that just keeps getting worse. Before their parents died, her brother Lionel persuaded them to make him her guardian.

She can't claim her inheritance unless she either marries with his consent or turns 25 without shaming herself. She's stuck in his house, with two more years on her sentence, since she’s not meeting anyone worth marrying among Lionel's drunken, lecherous cronies. Which is not to say there've been no offers. Lately, Lionel has been urging her to marry Lord Deveril. The dude's an earl and all that, but something about him makes her feel like she's got spiders in her drawers. So she said she’d rather die. At the time, Lionel let it drop, but she knows he's not giving up.

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She's lying in her locked bedroom, wondering what he'll try next, while her brother is 'entertaining' downstairs. A maid scratches at the door and offers her a nice hot toddy to help her relax. You'd think she'd see it coming, wouldn't you? But you'd be wrong. Unbeknownst to Eleanor, Christopher Delaney, Earl of Stainbridge, has been drugged as well. Download Tarot Gimbal Software For Mac. Lionel and Deveril had initially offered him a pretty young man.

But he had his wits together enough to protest that he was a ladies’ man ('was married, you know'). So Deveril offers him the doxy he has waiting for him upstairs.

Stainbridge (a/k/a Kit) can't have people getting the idea that he's a Backgammon player, so up he goes. Eleanor tries to protest as the stranger slaps her and demands that she perform. But the words, 'help!' Just won’t come out of her mouth. She does manage “please,” though. (Because that’s so much easier to say than “stop” and not the least bit ambiguous.) Her last impressions as she drifts into oblivion are the look on his face and the pain Downstairs, Lionel and Deveril talk about how it’s a shame they couldn’t get Stainbridge to show his true colors so they could blackmail him.

As for the sacrifice of Eleanor's maidenhead, Deveril's cool. Taking her when she's unconscious wouldn't be that much fun anyway. And now that she's been 'shamed,' she has to marry him. He'll 'enjoy her hatred even more when she's compelled to conceal it.' The next AM, Kit goes back to Lionel’s place to try to make sense of what happened, and he sees a cloaked figure slip out a side door. He follows, and he catches up just as she’s fixing to jump off a bridge. He snatches her down.

They recognize each other. Shortly after she comes around, he says, 'You are the woman who wasintroduced to pleasure last night. Art History Volume 2 5th Edition Stokstad Pdf To Excel. ' Now, me, I'm thinking that statement, coming out of the mouth of a man who slapped and raped me last night, might just make me a little Not Eleanor, though. This gal is the poster child for Flat Affect.