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Love and the Marquis

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Now she is sixteen and a half, the beautiful young Lady Imeldra is eager to leave school and resume her exciting life with her father, the Earl of Kingsclere. He is renowned in Society as something of a ‘man about town’, but when he goes on his frequent extensive travels round the world, he always takes Imeldra with him and she just loves being with her father. She is dismayed when he announces that his rather decadent lifestyle is not conducive to the necessary task of presenting Imeldra to Society and at Court and finding her an appropriate suitor for her hand in marriage. And he is intending to send her to live with her strait-laced and disapproving grandmother, where she will lead a very dull and formal lifeRebelling, she enlists the help of an old family friend, William Gladwin, who is currently building an ornate orangery at the neighbouring estate of Marizon and passes herself off as Mr. Gladwin’s grand-daughter so that she can stay at Marizon and perhaps explore the house that is renowned for its superb collection of pictures by great artists.Although the house and its estate is incomparable in its beauty and grandeur and its brooding cynical Master, the Marquis of Marizon, is equally handsome, Imeldra has the distinct feeling that something is amiss and that the Marquis is hiding some dark secret from everyone around him including her. And, seeking to know more of the mysterious Marquis, she finds to her surprise that she has fallen in love.

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Author’s NoteCitrus trees were cultivated by the Hebrews from about 500 B.C. There is a Talmudic legend that the citron was the fruit Eve offered to Adam in the Garden of Eden. The word for ‘citrus’ in modern Hebrew is hadar. It is used in Leviticus 23, 40 to describe ‘the fruit of a goodly tree’ which grew in the Garden of Eden, the so-called ‘Tree of Knowledge’. The ‘bitter orange’ was brought from the East by the Arabs and the Moors cultivated it in Spain. In England orangeries became fashionable in the sixteenth century and many great architects of the eighteenth century were commissioned to design them. The Regency architect, Humphrey Repton, first designed top-lighting and also added the orangery or conservatory to the house. The greatest difficulty in growing citrus was heating. Queen Henrietta Maria’s orangery in 1649 was lined with mattresses and reeds. An orangery at Ham House in Richmond used heat from a laundry arranged in the same building to warm the plants. There are very fine orangeries at Warwick Castle (erected in 1780), at Burleigh House, first designed for Queen Elizabeth’s Lord Chamberlain in 1561 and replaced two hundred years later by the famous Capability Brown and the largest and most magnificent at Morgan Park was built in 1790.

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