The Glitter and the Gold
By: Marion Chesney.
Publisher: Chivers Press; G.K. Hall
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Bath, England; Thorndike, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Subjects: Large type books
Description: Fanny and her groom had been tricked! Both sets of impoverished parents had decided to recoup their families' losses by marrying their offspring to the progeny of a "rich" neighbor. The truth, however, was that neither family had a penny to its name. 

Charles was not the dark rogue of Fanny's girlish fantasies, but he was chivalrously determined that she should meet someone more appropriate than he. And for her part, Fanny wanted Charles to find the woman of means who would be the snwer to his prayers. Yet as each one set out to find someone for the other, both were left with the strangest sensation - that quite possibly, true love might have nothing to do with riches...