Barbara Metzger wrote this in 1992 and it has been reissued for the season! Yay! In 1992 I was living in Barrow, Alaska and I was not reading much in the way of Romance.
The story involves Juneclair Beaumont an orphan who lives with her aunt, Lady Stanton who is a horrible pinch penny and threatened to harm Pansy. She is essentially a sweet natured, unpaid servant but enough is enough, she packed up, took Pansy and walked away
The hero is Merritt Jordan Earl of St. Cloud. He is 30, his family is pressuring him to marry. He is driving his team of chestnuts home and he is robbed. He continues on his way and finds odd and ends left beside the road all left there by Juneclaire as she had run away from her servitude with Pansy and all of her belongings, which became heavier and heavier the further she walked. The Earl picked up the discarded belongings and eventually finds Juneclaire.
He offers to take her and her baby up on his horse. She hands up Pansy to him and he allows as how he has never held a baby....
pig. From there on the story gets funnier.
My two favorite comments were:
"They had him by the shoat hairs"
and
"Swine, women and song."
You had to read it in context but I laughed out loud.
The author has written other witty books, I have a couple and I think collecting more Metzger's will be my next literary project.
2 comments:
Swinish.
You know that Metzger is German for butcher. Maybe its part of a series ...
Nein I did not know that. Thanks. The author has written a few "Regency" romance. I downloaded an e-book of hers entitled
"The Christmas Carrolls". All about Lord Carroll and his three marriagable dauthers, Joy, HOlly and Merry...and his illegitimate son, Noel. It was a good witty read.
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