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    More Than a Couple of Camels
    More Than a Couple of Camels
    More Than a Couple of Camels
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    More Than a Couple of Camels

    By Suzy Stewart Dubot

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    The year is 1818 and Miss Baxter is a twenty-six-year old spinster in London, England. For some unfathomable reason, she seems to attract the wrong type of man through no fault of her own. Her trip to the museum is about to set her on an unexpected course when she enters one of its rooms by mistake. A short, fast-paced tale of how love triumphs.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSuzy Stewart Dubot
    Release dateDec 19, 2013
    ISBN9781310994616
    More Than a Couple of Camels
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    Suzy Stewart Dubot

    An Anglo/American who has lived in France for nearly 40 years, she began writing as soon as she retired. She moved to London in 2012 and spent more than a year there with family. The spring of 2014, she returned to France, Her laptop has never had any trouble following her.Before retiring, she worked at a variety of jobs. Some of the more interesting have been : Art and Crafts teacher, Bartender, Marketing Assistant for N° 1 World Yacht Charterers (Moorings), Beaux Arts Model, Secretary to the French Haflinger Association...With her daughters, she is a vegetarian and a supporter of animal rights! She is also an admirer of William Wilberforce.(If you should read her book 'The Viscount's Midsummer Mistress' you will see that she has devoted some paragraphs to the subject in Regency times.)PLEASE BE KIND ENOUGH TO LEAVE A REVIEW FOR ANY BOOK YOU READ (hers included).

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      More Than a Couple of Camels - Suzy Stewart Dubot

      More Than a Couple of Camels

      Copyright©Dec. 2013 Suzy Stewart Dubot

      Published by Suzy Stewart Dubot at Smashwords

      ISBN: 9781310994616

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      More Than a Couple of Camels

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      Suzy Stewart Dubot

      Chapter 1

      London, 1818

      Bathsheba Baxter pushed her eyeglasses higher on her nose as she prepared to peer at the painting. Usually, she did not appear in public wearing the glasses as she felt that they were a sign of weakness and were certainly not flattering. Their use was normally reserved for reading in the privacy of her home, but today the picture had caught her attention the moment she had entered the room. Being in the museum's art gallery, she felt that if anyone were to see her, she with her glasses might be mistaken for the intelligentsia.

      When she had reached that nearness which allowed her to bring the figure on the canvas into focus, she jumped back.

      Oh! She said rather more loudly than she would have liked. She looked around to see if anyone had heard her exclamation due to the startling image of a naked woman. That in itself might have passed without too much ado if there hadn't been a satyr standing next to the woman with a hand on her bared buttock.

      Bathsheba quickly removed the glasses, folded them and placed them in a case taken from her reticule, all as she eased away from the shocking painting.

      It is always a good idea to take a programme, a man's voice spoke to her, "which should give you fair warning as to the picture's content.

      According to this, he waved

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