Miss Ryder's Memoirs (26 page)

If I am ever moved to take pen in hand again, I shall probably make Amanda my heroine, for though she is not so lively as a heroine ought to be, still her adventures in London with Mama as her chaperone do have a touch of the extraordinary about them. I would have to give her an assumed name, however, for if I am going to write a second history, I most assuredly intend to offer it for publication. Once as a labor of love is one thing; a second would be far too much effort not to be shared with an audience larger than one.

Speaking of John, my only audience, he and I were quite right about our love and our happiness. He is eyen rather pleased, now that I have finished it, to read of himself as the hero of my tale.

And if the world considers us an eccentric pair, so much the better!

Copyright © 1988 by Laura Matthews

Originally published by Signet

Electronically published in 2004 by Belgrave House/Regency Reads

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