title: The Gentleman's Impertinent Daughter: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
author:  Rose Fairbanks 
description: Rose Fairbanks fell in love with Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy 11 years ago. Coincidentally, or perhaps not, she also met her real life Mr. Darcy 11 years ago. They had their series of missteps, just like Elizabeth and Darcy, but are now teaching the admiring multitude what happiness in marriage really looks like and have been blessed with two children, a 3 year old son and a one year old daughter. Previously rereading her favorite Austen novels several times a year, Rose discovered Jane Austen Fan Fiction due to pregnancy-induced insomnia. Several months later she began writing. The Gentleman's Impertinent Daughter is her first published work. Rose has a degree in history and hopes to one day finish her PhD in Modern Europe and will focus on the Regency Era in Great Britain. For now, she gets to satiate her love of research, Pride and Prejudice, reading and writing....and the only thing she has to sacrifice is sleep! She proudly admits to her Darcy obsession, addictions to reading, chocolate and sweet tea, is always in the mood for a good debate and dearly loves to laugh. You can connect with Rose on Facebook, Twitter, and her blog: darcyobsession.blogspot.com
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  Miss Bannerman and the Duke
  
  
  
  
  
  Fenella J. Miller
  
  
  
  
  
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  Aurora Regency  
  
  
  An imprint of  
  
  
  Musa Publishing
  
  
  
  
  
  # Chapter Seven
  
  
  Perry cursed his inadvertent comment. The last thing he wanted to do was to
  give her the impression he had anything other than the mildest interest in her
  as a woman. She was scarcely out of the schoolroom, far too young to be
  frightened by such things. Had he not already overstepped the mark by kissing
  her?
  
  
  Time enough—when they had been married a while—to gently introduce her to the
  pleasures of the marriage bed. Although worldly in some ways, in this matter
  she was very much an innocent. He must treat her as he would his niece and not
  alarm her in any way.
  
  
  He glanced down; she was walking proudly at his side, every inch a duchess in
  waiting. She had spent her life being compared unfavourably to her sister;
  from now on things would be different. She would be treated wit