"Susie", "The Conquest"

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Jennie Tremaine used several violent death to help the plot along in this gentle, sure-footed farce. The girl's dreamy; the guy's impulsive.

__ Dobbins was won by sentimental, middle-class kindness. After all, he's a very, very common horse.
__ Susie was slightly cooled by the fact that her beloved had false teeth.
__ Giles was about to ask her if he could shoot her horse, and in the same breath he was about to accuse her of having an affair with Jimmy. {On the third to last page!}

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It took Drum, a duke's son, 310 pages to overcome his class consciousness to kiss the foundling girl who nursed him back to health after a bad fall - in a sealed abandoned warehouse by the Thames. Annoyance factor: high. (Sorry, Edith Layton).