| As an abandoned child in a turn-of-the-century English mill town, Lally had ableak future. She was too young, toodistraught, too hungry even, to dreamof the simple comforts of a warm hearth,let alone entertain visions of becomingthe mistress of a grand manor, the wifeof a dashing war hero, and eventuallythe titled hostess of a glittering salonin London. Yet all this was to be so-- bythe grace of a stranger... Black JackPollock knew that by taking in this "bitof filth" and raising her as his child hewould once again he scorned for an ill-bred parvenu. But he recognized on!yone aristocracy, that of the noble spiritand the steadfastly passionate heart,and these things shone in the dark andtroubled eyes of the little foundling headopted. The nobility would accepther; as they did his other children. BlackJack knew ways of getting around so-ciety s gilded barricade. |
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