title: The Impetuous Heiress
author:  Jane Ashford 
description: The moment Lady Alicia Alston first encountered Ian Cairnyllan, she could see that this imperious lord from the wilds of Scotland had a great deal to learn. He clearly did not appreciate that Alicia was a most sought-after beauty, with swarms of suitors. He had even less understanding of the pleasures his younger sister wished to pursue in her first London season. And he absolutely refused to mask his contempt for the dictates of society and for the behavior of its leading lights.
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  #### The City Heiress
  
  
  Act I
  
  Act II
  
  Act III
  
  [Act IV](The%20City%20Heiress_split_001.html#filepos154183)
  
  [Act V](The%20City%20Heiress_split_001.html#filepos200181)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  The City Heiress
  
  
  ### Aphra Behn
  
  
  
  
  
  The City Heiress
  
  
    
  or, Sir Timothy Treat-all
  
  
  ### To the Right Honourable
  
  
    
  Henry Earl of Arundel, and Lord Mowbray.
  
  
    
  
  MY LORD,
  
  
  'Tis long that I have with great impatience waited some opportunity to declare
  my infinite Respect to your Lordship, coming, I may say, into the World with a
  Veneration for your Illustrious Family, and being brought up with continual
  Praises of the Renowned Actions of your glorious Ancestors, both in War and
  Peace, so famous over the Christian World for their Vertue, Piety, and
  Learning, their elevated Birth, and greatness of Courage, and of whom all our
  English History are full of the Wonders of the Lives: A Family of so Ancient
  Nobility, and from whom so many Heroes 