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True Story (The Deverells, #1) True Story by Jayne Fresina
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“I too have suffered from vile rumors and unkind speculation, so you may rest assured your master has an ally in me. I only meant that his wife must have been relieved to dispel her pent up anxieties and frustrations on a portrait. We women suffer terrible hysteria at times and for little reason, as you must know. We are flighty, temperamental creatures, are we not? That is why they call us the weaker sex. It's fortunate we have men and corsets to keep us in our place or we might explode into little pieces.”
Jayne Fresina, True Story
“He'd never seen a more miserable gown. The color hovered in some purgatory between raincloud and ditchwater and it looked as if the pieces of it were cut to a pattern of indifference, then stitched with resentment.”
Jayne Fresina, True Story
“Of course, any time there was a peaceful scene a man could be counted upon to spoil it.”
Jayne Fresina, True Story