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Appeared in the June 1818 Ackermann’s Repository.
Mystery, magnetism, and marzipan
Scottish singer Emma Bryson travels to London determined to fulfill a deathbed promise to her mother to sing for the Queen. Her debut at a fashionable salon starts brilliantly but ends in disaster when the usually poised Emma tumbles backwards and lands on the champagne-buffed boots of Philip Henry Jamison, the earl of Blackbourne and London's most eligible bachelor.
Daniel Clay notifies Vella Price of the elopement of his nephew Giles with her niece Kitty. In their travels by stage and carriage they desperately try to find their wards and prevent a runaway marriage. Eventually they realize they are the ones who have been compromised, but also that they have fallen in love.
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