To Pluck a Rose

ISBN: 9780671643683

定价: 27.00

内容简介

Chapter 1
Leisa Miquet Van Gulik??? youngest in a brood of five???
grew up at Holland Haus??? her father s country estate on the
Jersey side of the Hudson River??? in the cheerfully mistaken
belief that she was the odd duckling in a family of swans.
Her three older sisters Emily??? Lizbet??? and Marie??? had
inherited the fair porcelain skin and fragile small-boned
prettiness of their Huguenot mother??? Catherine Miquet.
They had little round blue eyes under slim arched brows???
daintily pursed-up lips??? and delicate turned-up noses. Their
thick glossy ringlets clustered~ in bunches over shell-like
ears. Even their brother Arend !ooked more like them than
the youngest sister. ~
Leisa s eyes changed according~o the season or her mood
or the color of the dress she wore--they were blue??? they
were green??? they were navy. Her nose was long with wide-
flared nostrils and her mouth was laughing and full-lipped.
Her hair was the same flaxen gold as her sisters ??? but it
defied all attempts to make it fashionably curly. No matter
how many nights Catherine s maid Molly tied it up tightly
in papers or how many days she labored over it with a hot
cuding iron??? the limp sausage curls flatted out within
minutes and Leisa s hair reverted to its normal state???
tumbling straight to her shoulders.
It was thick fine hair??? Joris Van Gulik pointed out to his
wife during one of her lamentations after they had just spied
their youngest daughter running to the stables??? shoes in
hand??? her hair in its usual tangle. \"One day some man will
well like to see its softness spread out on a pillow???\" he
reminded Catherine??? his own blue eyes twinkling.