Excerpt from The Duke's Marriage Gertrude Corrington - "Flirtie," as many of her kind friends called her - was engaged to marry the French Duc d'Alma. Flirtie was a girl with wavy hair and a little mouth, the belle of Lewbury, and twenty-one years old. She had had her dozen of love-affairs already (certainly not one less, affirmed Mrs. Nethersole, who had a retentive memory for the doings of her neighbours), and it was reported that Dr. Claverley, the rising young surgeon, and Mr. Oram, the curate of Westover, who were both smitten with her charms, would never propose to her because she was too fast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.