{"id":22477,"date":"2023-10-19T20:09:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T00:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=22477"},"modified":"2024-01-30T19:40:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T00:40:24","slug":"mrs-martins-incomparable-adventure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22477","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Martin\u2019s Incomparable Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3rTYtTl\"><em>Mrs. Martin\u2019s Incomparable Adventure<\/em><\/a> (2019) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/romance\/milan_courtney.php\">Courtney Milan<\/a> (The Worth Saga)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3rTYtTl\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Mrs-Martins-Incomparable-Adventure.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mrs Martins Incomparable Adventure\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Mrs-Martins-Incomparable-Adventure.jpg?w=333&amp;ssl=1 333w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Mrs-Martins-Incomparable-Adventure.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Set in England in 1867.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She was sixty-nine and unmarried\u2014one of the so-called surplus women who choked up the attics and rooming houses of London. Never mind her experience, her meticulous calculational capabilities, her voluminous memory. She was old and unpretty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was polite and kind, even when my tenants were in arrears, even when they threatened me. I was always, always kind. I thought if I was, they\u2019d have to be kind back. Eventually.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Do you often bebother men who fall from your good graces?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Bertrice thought about the look on her Terrible Nephew\u2019s face. \u201cNot often enough.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs. Martin\u2019s Incomparable Adventure (2019) Courtney Milan (The Worth Saga) Set in England in 1867. She was sixty-nine and unmarried\u2014one of the so-called surplus women who choked up the attics and rooming houses of London. Never mind her experience, her meticulous calculational capabilities, her voluminous memory. She was old and unpretty. &#8220;I was polite and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[193,292,204,33,196,148,41,26,56],"tags":[128,545,693,557],"class_list":["post-22477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10","category-ebook","category-good","category-historical","category-novella","category-queer","category-reread","category-romance","category-sexual-content","tag-courtney-milan","tag-ff","tag-older-protagonist","tag-victorian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5Qx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11813,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/11813","url_meta":{"origin":22477,"position":0},"title":"Mrs. Martin\u2019s Incomparable Adventure","author":"Michelle","date":"March 31, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Mrs. Martin\u2019s Incomparable Adventure (2019) Courtney Milan Set in England in 1867. 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