Note: The Travellers' Club was not founded until 1819, which is after the time period of the story quoted below, so this could not actually be Lord Westonbury's club. However, it presented a possibility of what his fictional club might look like, and it has a library noted in the plan so it went with the fact that Wes is reading. :) (Yes, the scene in which this excerpt is found does take place in a gentlemen's club.)
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“Do not tell me you are reading on a fine day instead of riding in the park, taking in the view.”
Lorcan Langley took the seat across from Wes.
“What book is it?” Wes’s long-time friend asked.
Wes chuckled. “You’ll think me daft.”
“Too late, my friend. Most of us already think you to be so.” Langley laughed and Wes joined him.
There was a certain delightful something which could be found in being unpredictable on occasions. It kept one’s friends, as well as one’s mother, on their toes.
[from Persuading Miss Mary, book 4 in the Marrying Elizabeth Series]
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Confounding Caroline ~ Delighting Mrs. Bennet ~ Loving Lydia
OK… I’ll bite. What book was it? See, you have drawn me in. I look forward to seeing what the book is and what mischief Lorcan can cause for his friend when he finds out the title.
From what I have written so far, Lorcan is going to cause a bit of trouble. (And that is probably not nice of me at all to hint at things to come.)
Thanks for sharing this picture!
You’re welcome.
Hmmm…if it’s not his ‘usual’ kind of book, that makes me wonder just what kind of books besides the books of peerage might be in a gentlemen’s club. The traveler’s club must have travelogues and geographies too. But did other clubs have books and what kinds? In the movies you always see a group of very old sirs with white hair snoozing behind their newspapers. I have an overactive naughty imagination and I’ve read too many steamy Regencies.