
A breezy summer gathering at an English country estate is interrupted when Dan Blair, a good‑natured young man from Montana, wanders in with a shy smile and a bewildering mix of slang and charm. The duchess of Breakwater is instantly intrigued by his bright eyes and effortless wit, while the other guests watch his unfamiliar manners with a blend of amusement and suspicion. Dan’s unexpected appearance at the shooting party—chosen at random from a rack of guns—sets the scene for a playful clash of cultures.
As the aristocratic ladies gossip about his mysterious fortune and “clean money,” Dan’s easygoing manner begins to soften the rigid social codes of the landed gentry. His genuine curiosity about the estate’s routines and his willingness to join the hunt hint at a deeper connection forming with the elegant, yet restless, young duchess. Listeners are invited into a world of witty banter, budding attraction, and the delightful uncertainty of what happens when a Western frontier spirit meets old‑world refinement.
Language
en
Duration
~4 hours (277K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2011-08-03
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1867–1936
A novelist, painter, and social investigator, this American writer moved between New York society and working-class realities with unusual curiosity. Her life later stretched into wartime nursing in Europe, giving her fiction and nonfiction a lived sense of history.
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