 Blackstone Publishing and Skyboat Media present The Black Moth by Georgette Hire. This book is read by Gabrielle de Cure. Prologue. Clad in his customary black and silver, with raven hair unpowdered and elaborately dressed, diamonds on his fingers and in his cravat, Hugh Tracy Clare Belmanois, Duke of Andover, sat at the escritoir in the library of his townhouse, writing, He wore no rouge on his face, the almost unnatural pallor of which seemed designedly enhanced by a patch set beneath his right eye. Brows and lashes were black, the former slanting slightly up at the corners, but his narrow, heavy-lidded eyes were green and strangely piercing. A thin lip's curl, a little, sneering, as one dead-white hand travelled to and fro across the paper. But it seems that the fair lady has a brother, who, finding me enamoured, threw down the gauntlet. I soundly whipped the presumptuous child, and so the affair ends. Now, as you, my dear Frank, also took some interest in the lady, I write for the express purpose of informing you that at my hands she has received no hurt, nor is not like to. This I in part tell you that you shall not imagine yourself in honor bound again to call me out, which purpose, and I mistake not, I yesterday read in your eyes. I should be exceedingly low to meet you in a second time, when I shall consider it my duty to teach you an even severer lesson than before. This I am not wishful of doing, for the liking I bear you. So, in all friendship, believe me, Frank, your most obedient, humble devil, his grace of and over paused, pen-held in mid-air, a mocking smile dawned in his eyes, and he wrote again, In the event of any desire on your part to hazard your luck with my late paramour, permit me to warn you against the Bantam brother, who is in very truth a fire-eater, and would wish to make of you as of me one mouthful. I shall hope to see you at the Queen's Buried Route on Thursday, when you may once more strive to direct mine-airing footsteps onto the thorny path of virtue. His grace, sample complete. Ready to continue?