The Gilded Lily: A NovelSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2016. szept. 13. - 320 oldal The elegant and passionate Nina De Bonnard lives life by her own rules, changing beaus as often as she does gowns, in this delightful novel from award-winning author Helen Argers. Set in America's Gilded Age, The Gilded Lily moves from opulent Fifth Avenue parties to ostentatious summer mansions. |
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... night when she was thirteen and the closing began. Time grew walls of an increasing thickness about that happening until it seemed as if it had never happened. And Nina gilded the walls and insulated herself with laughter and admiration ...
... night when she was thirteen and the closing began. Time grew walls of an increasing thickness about that happening until it seemed as if it had never happened. And Nina gilded the walls and insulated herself with laughter and admiration ...
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... night's humiliation could be eased would be by punching Bobby's gloating face. Walking up hurriedly and refusing, gentleman that he was, to bring up Nina's name, Dick said coldly, “You serve like a woman, Bobby. Your wrists are ... limp ...
... night's humiliation could be eased would be by punching Bobby's gloating face. Walking up hurriedly and refusing, gentleman that he was, to bring up Nina's name, Dick said coldly, “You serve like a woman, Bobby. Your wrists are ... limp ...
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... night's tangles. Oh bother, she thought when she remembered that a lady of her age would not appear without her hair neatly pinned up in a variety of buns, looking more like a hat than the free fall of natural hair. At the last moment ...
... night's tangles. Oh bother, she thought when she remembered that a lady of her age would not appear without her hair neatly pinned up in a variety of buns, looking more like a hat than the free fall of natural hair. At the last moment ...
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