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The duke's sweetheart : a romance / Richard Dowling. |
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| Publication Info. |
Auckland : The Floating Press, [2013] |
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©2013 |
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| Description |
1 online resource (356 pages) |
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data file rda |
| Note |
Print version record. |
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Originally published in 1885. |
| Contents |
Title; Contents; PART I -- THE DUKE OF LONG ACRE; Chapter I -- The Duke's Sweetheart; Chapter II -- A Ducal Carriage; Chapter III -- A Village Story; Chapter IV -- A Town Story; Chapter V -- Under Anerly Bridge; Chapter VI -- What's in a Name?; Chapter VII -- A Story of a City; Chapter VIII -- On Board the Yacht ""Seabird""; Chapter IX -- The Marquis of Southwold's Letter; Chapter X -- Rousing the Lion; Chapter XI -- At Bankleigh; Chapter XII -- The Duke's Weather; Chapter XIII -- A Nor'-Easter at Sea; Chapter XIV -- Two Discoveries; Chapter XV -- An Invisible Foe; Chapter XVI -- On the Rocks. |
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Chapter XVII -- Volunteer IChapter XVIII -- Volunteer II; Chapter XIX -- The Rescue; Chapter XX -- Fame; Chapter XXI -- Coincidences; Chapter XXII -- Thirty-Five Years After; PART II -- THE DUKE OF SHROPSHIRE; Chapter I -- The Two Cheynes; Chapter II -- The Dread of Strawberry Leaves; Chapter III -- The Return of the Prodigal; Chapter IV -- The Impending Coronet; Chapter V -- The Glorious Privilege; Chapter VI -- A Supper Without a Host; Chapter VII -- Adrift; Chapter VIII -- On the Track; Chapter IX -- Waiting for News; Chapter X -- ""Fire!""; Chapter XI -- Dawn; Chapter XII -- Night. |
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Chapter XIII -- On the RoofChapter XIV -- A Silent Drive; Chapter XV -- The Marriage of Charlie and May. |
| Summary |
Called ""The Duke of Long Acre"" in jest by his chums, Charles Augustus Cheyne is an amiable figure with a shadowy past. When love arrives suddenly and unexpectedly, it throws a monkey wrench into the routines that make up his humdrum existence. Will the Duke be able to find a way to make this out-of-the-blue romance last forever? |
| Subject |
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- General.
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Aristocracy (Social class) (OCoLC)fst00814463
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Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Love stories.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dowling, Richard. Duke's Sweetheart : A Romance. Auckland : The Floating Press, ©2013 |
| ISBN |
9781776527502 (electronic bk.) |
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177652750X (electronic bk.) |
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