![]() When they accept a ride from a lonely Yorkshireman, Terence ends up fighting him, too, when the man offers to buy Celia. They fight adversity together, finding food and shelter where they can, all the while watching for followers. Here the road romance begins as Terence and Celia gather what supplies they can and strike out half-dressed across the moor, since they can’t chance being caught on the road. She changes his name to Terence Fish, his occupation to cleric-in-training and his home to Cornwall. When it becomes evident that Tarquin has amnesia, Celia concieves of a plan to make him help her until his memory comes back, telling him that they are betrothed and he had evidently been riding to her rescue. It’s Tarquin Compton! Although she still feels very bitter toward Tarquin, Celia finds she can’t leave him to the mercy of the thief, so she wakes him. After she escapes from the attic, she discovers that the second rider was another victim of the thief, a man left half clothed and lying in the dirt, having been clubbed in the head. But then she hears two horses leave and decides to make a break for it while she can. When Celia hears another horse arrive at the cottage, she assumes that it is a co-conspirator of her captor. Now, the betrothal over, and having had to depart her former employ on foot with no reference, she’s been kidnapped, imprisoned in the attic of a lonely cottage on the moor, and had all her belongings stolen except for one undergarment. She then took a job as a governess and was eventually betrothed to her employer, but that was ruined when a man broke into her room and her soon-to-be sister in law convinced her betrothed that Celia had a lover. Then the uncle died after neglecting to provide for Celia in his will. He provided her with a season in which to find a husband, but that was ruined by one Tarquin Compton, a man greatly respected by the ton, when he compared her to a cauliflower. She travelled alone and basically penniless to throw herself on the mercy of an uncle she’d never met. Shortly before her departure to England she was advised that her father had been killed in an accident. ![]() The Amorous Education of Celia Seaton is a quirky mish-mash of plot devices, popular lord/scandalous commoner, kidnap/rescue, deceived amnesiac, and road romance, that somehow bind together to form a weird and oddly charming love story.Ĭelia Seaton is in a horrible jam, and has been since she arrived in England from India, where she was reared by her widower father. After picking up and putting down this book more than a few times, I was a little surprised to find that when I finally got into it I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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