Venetia (English, Paperback, Georgette Heyer)

Lord Damerel found Venetia to be the most truly engaging and wittily perverse female he had encountered in all his thirty-eight years.

Venetia knew her neighbour for a shocking rake, a gamester, and a man of sadly unsteady character. It was, therefore, particularly provoking to find that given occasion, Damerel could make up his mind to be quite idiotically noble…
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