![]() They had become quite an inseparable threesome and rarely bothered to play with the other children in the area, most of whom lived nearly an hour’s ride away.īut a dozen or so times a year, and especially on birthdays, all the children of the local nobility and gentry gathered together. Miranda’s home was quite close to Haverbreaks, the Rudlands’ ancestral home near Ambleside, in the Lake District of Cumberland, and she had always shared lessons with Olivia and Winston when they were in residence. ![]() ![]() Just such an unpleasant incident occurred at the eleventh birthday party of Lady Olivia and the Honorable Winston Bevelstoke, twin children of the Earl and Countess of Rudland. Children have a way of finding these things out, usually from other children. And although she was only ten, she knew that in this regard she was considered inferior to most of the other little girls who lived nearby. Unfortunately for Miranda, the society into which she was born placed great stock on female appearance. ![]() ![]() Her mother often remarked that she positively loped around the house. Her hair was brown-lamentably-as were her eyes and her legs, which were uncommonly long, refused to learn anything that could be remotely called grace. At the age of ten, Miss Miranda Cheever showed no signs of Great Beauty. ![]()
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