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Mar. 14th, 2013 07:43 pmFaro's Daughter was one of the most-recced Heyers in comments the other day; I think it is generally known as "the one where the heroine kidnaps the hero and keeps him in her cellar!"
So, yes, that happens.
Faro's Daughter is one of the Heyers with a TEMPESTUOUS couple who spend most of their time shouting at each other; HE'S a rich, proud confirmed bachelor (of course) and SHE is the fierce and self-assured patroness of a gambling house. I do not actually believe in their happy ending at all, but the book was extremely amusing all the same! However, my sympathies fell most often with the heroine's poor, beleaguered, deeply-in-debt aunt, who got to have lots of conversations that went like this:
OUR HEROINE DEBORAH: Aunt, aunt, you will never guess what happened!
AUNT: Does it have something to do with our CRUSHING DEBTS?
DEBORAH: Well, a very rich man just offered me twenty thousand dollars not to marry his rich baby cousin, whom I had no intention of marrying anyway!
AUNT: Great! Fantastic! We could totally use twenty thousand dollars!
DEBORAH: And then I threw it in his face.
AUNT: . . . .
DEBORAH: And I told him I would TOTALLY marry his rich baby cousin!
AUNT: Oh, you will? Great! Fantastic! That will also work!
DEBORAH: Oh, don't be silly, I am totally not going to really marry his cousin!
AUNT: Then why did . . . you say you would . . .
DEBORAH: TO TEACH HIM A LESSON ABOUT OFFERING ME MONEY.
AUNT: So . . . just to clarify, what is your plan from here, exactly?
DEBORAH: Well, I'm going to agree to marry his cousin, and THEN I'm going to make myself SO COMPLETELY VULGAR AND ANNOYING that everyone is going to be totally embarrassed to be seen with me, and the jerkface will think I am exactly the kind of awful person he thought I was! HAH! That'll show him!
AUNT: And then -- correct me if I'm wrong -- you are going to dump the cousin at the last minute --
DEBORAH: YEP! :D
AUNT: -- and we will end up in debtor's prison.
DEBORAH: MAYBE! But who cares? I will have shown them all! HAHAHAHAHA!
AUNT: I do not understand the kids these days.
But if her poor aunt is confused by this, this is nothing compared with
( what happens later. )
So, yes, that happens.
Faro's Daughter is one of the Heyers with a TEMPESTUOUS couple who spend most of their time shouting at each other; HE'S a rich, proud confirmed bachelor (of course) and SHE is the fierce and self-assured patroness of a gambling house. I do not actually believe in their happy ending at all, but the book was extremely amusing all the same! However, my sympathies fell most often with the heroine's poor, beleaguered, deeply-in-debt aunt, who got to have lots of conversations that went like this:
OUR HEROINE DEBORAH: Aunt, aunt, you will never guess what happened!
AUNT: Does it have something to do with our CRUSHING DEBTS?
DEBORAH: Well, a very rich man just offered me twenty thousand dollars not to marry his rich baby cousin, whom I had no intention of marrying anyway!
AUNT: Great! Fantastic! We could totally use twenty thousand dollars!
DEBORAH: And then I threw it in his face.
AUNT: . . . .
DEBORAH: And I told him I would TOTALLY marry his rich baby cousin!
AUNT: Oh, you will? Great! Fantastic! That will also work!
DEBORAH: Oh, don't be silly, I am totally not going to really marry his cousin!
AUNT: Then why did . . . you say you would . . .
DEBORAH: TO TEACH HIM A LESSON ABOUT OFFERING ME MONEY.
AUNT: So . . . just to clarify, what is your plan from here, exactly?
DEBORAH: Well, I'm going to agree to marry his cousin, and THEN I'm going to make myself SO COMPLETELY VULGAR AND ANNOYING that everyone is going to be totally embarrassed to be seen with me, and the jerkface will think I am exactly the kind of awful person he thought I was! HAH! That'll show him!
AUNT: And then -- correct me if I'm wrong -- you are going to dump the cousin at the last minute --
DEBORAH: YEP! :D
AUNT: -- and we will end up in debtor's prison.
DEBORAH: MAYBE! But who cares? I will have shown them all! HAHAHAHAHA!
AUNT: I do not understand the kids these days.
But if her poor aunt is confused by this, this is nothing compared with
( what happens later. )
