Blounts

“But the Miss Blounts have been brought up with expensive habits and extravagant expectations,” Alexander protested.

The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

Arabella could only surmise that he wanted to show off his acquaintance with so ancient a family as the Blounts, although everybody knew that they were heavily encumbered by debt.

The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

The coach drew up outside the town house in King Street where the Blounts were staying, and after a minute or two Teresa came out of the house.

The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

On her left, she could hear the Miss Blounts making a fuss about their friend Alexander Pope.

The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

Like Alexander and his family, the Blounts were Roman Catholics.

The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

“My things,” she stammered, “they are within—the Miss Blounts will—”

The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

Jervas exclaimed, forgetting in his enthusiasm that the Miss Blounts were standing by.

The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

The Miss Blounts wager that their beauty and good nature will find them rich husbands—and I am gambling my talents as a poet on an open market.

The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

“How charming to see you and your sister,” Lord Petre said to Teresa, as he kissed each of the Blounts in turn.

The Scandal of the Season Sophie Gee 2007

It did not include any more about the history of the Potter's Field than the mere fact that it had passed by stages from the Blounts to the abbey's keeping, and had given up, when ploughed, the body of a dead woman for whose identity the law was now searching.

The Potter's Field Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1989