Sublime

There are so few men in Carlingford who can flirt," said Lucilla regretfully. Her eyes fell as she spoke upon young Osmond Brown, who was actually at that moment talking to Mr Bury's curate, with a disregard of his social duties painful to contemplate.

rusticated

Among the young men their friends and neighbours, the belle jeunesse of the Colony, there were many excellent fellows, several devoted swains, and some two or three who enjoyed the reputation of universal charmers and conquerors. But the home-bred arts and the somewhat boisterous gallantry of those honest young colonists were completely eclipsed by

He was no older than the rest of them judging by his face, but his drawl suggested a decadent, world-weary forty-year-old.

‘Toby is, if I may so describe it, the heir presumptive to the heir apparent.’

LinkedIn Banner Boy’ Jack Bainbridge