A Heart Too Proud Author:Laura London HE WAS A RAKE, A SCOUNDREL, A NOTORIOUS DESPOILER OF FEMINIE VIRTUE...AND, OH, SO GLORIOUSLY IRRESISTIBLE! — Such men have brought many an honest girl to ruin, but young Elizabeth - country-bred and city-green though she might be - was no man's fool. This diabolically handsome, devilishly rich Lord Dearborne, who set the most jaded tongues waggin... more »g, would just have to be content with his customary society strumpets. How dare he - as her family's benefactor - assume such liberties with her and yet call himself a gentleman! What cheek of him to bathe her in his slow, longing glances, to caress her with his languid smile, to make her heart flutter under the warmth of his gruff, gorgeous whisper. She knew well such roguish libertines never fell in love - and she would prove it to him even if it broke her wildly willful heart.« less