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Beauvallet: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

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Beauvallet is an English captain feared by the Spanish as a devil-worshiping pirate, although he is of course an honorable pirate who attacks Spanish ships in the name of the Queen and relies on luck, skill, daring, and a sense of humor.

Altogether the story and characters were a little thin for a book, but it would make a terrific film. the heroine, Dominica, is a gem, a rare one if one is permitted to say and the hero is so enchanting and funny in his nonchalant mischievous way. Indeed she was not: she engratiated quickly too me, with her humour, tentative to manipulate people around her with more or less success. A modern woman for modern times, Delwyn Jenkins has plenty of first-hand experience with today’s fast-paced publishing industry. But then he captures a Spanish galleon with the lovely and spirited Dona Dominica de Rada y Sylva on board.Our born under a Venus-Jupiter conjunction hero goes full guns blazing after Dominica, but the romance is too early Hollywood flat for me. A wonderful thing about Beauvallet is that when El Beauvallet falls in love with Dominica, he does not claim her as his “love” or as his “mistress” or, in our culture, his “girlfriend,” he claims her as his bride. tear to upper right corner of front pastedown has been repaired, creases to front and rear pastedowns from time of publishing, some offsetting to endpapers, crease to right side of free front endpaper, fold-out pedigree of the family and half-title have some foxing. Soon won over, Dominica nevertheless disbelieves him when he states his intention of seeking her out in Spain and "making her an Englishwoman.

Nicholas Beauvallet is a descendant of Simon the Coldheart, also featured in a novel of the same name by Georgette Heyer, and a definite chip off the same block. But even as he makes contact with Dominica's new family, Beauvallet arouses the suspicion of the French ambassador, M. This small vessel is the Venture, Sir Nicholas’s own ship, with which he defeats the Spaniards and takes prisoner the beautiful Dominica and her father, a former Spanish governor of the West Indies. Binding sound, some spine lean and dulling to cloth, spine ends and hinges shelfworn with minor fraying at corners. Georgette has many little surprises spread all through the story and tells amazing creative adventures of Beauvallet’s wits, fights, and escapes.Once Beauvallet decides on a thing, he doesn't waste much time, but getting into Spain isn't an easy matter for any Englishman, let alone an infamous pirate whom the Spanish believe has witchcraft on his side. In the middle of the book, Dominica is mostly off-screen, and the story is swashbuckling and adventure as Nick gallavants about, merrily murdering people and laughing in the face of danger. Nicholas Beauvallet is one of Heyer’s vivid characters, whose many impossible feats become believable because the writing is so good. By the third part, she's in the clutches of the villain, Nick's hard on her heels to save her, and I suddenly liked her a great deal more.

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