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Barbara Cartland

The Husband Hunters

  • fatimahj07цитирует6 лет назад
    “But first there are so – many things you have to teach me – as you have said so often – I am very foolish and you are so – wise.”
  • fatimahj07цитирует6 лет назад
    ‘If once I became accustomed to the sort of horses the Duke owns,’ she thought to herself, ‘it would be very hard to go back to riding poor old Dobbin, even though he has carried us all faithfully for nearly ten years!’
  • fatimahj07цитирует6 лет назад
    But what do people care so long as they reach to their destinations quickly and safely?”
  • fatimahj07цитирует6 лет назад
    She had often heard criticism expressed about the iniquity of the overloading of the stagecoaches and the cruelty inflicted on the animals who pulled them.
  • fatimahj07цитирует6 лет назад
    “I suppose you realise,” one of her father’s hunting friends had said severely a year ago, “that the average life of a horse pulling a coach at about eight miles an hour is six years while at ten miles and over a horse lasts only three!”
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