[Snake and Sword by Percival Christopher Wren]@TWC D-Link bookSnake and Sword CHAPTER V 5/22
Respectable ever.
Seen in the Right Place, in the Right Clothes, doing the Right Thing with the Right People at the Right Time. Lucille was the daughter of Sylvester Bethune Gavestone, the late and lamented Bishop of Minsterbury (once a cavalry subaltern), a school, Sandhurst, and life-long friend of "Grandfather," and husband of "Grandfather's" cousin, Geraldine Seymour Stukeley. Poor "Grandfather," known to the children as "Grumper," the ferocious old tyrant who loved all mankind and hated all men, with him adoption was a habit, and the inviting of other children to stay as long as they liked with the adopted children, a craze. And yet he rarely saw the children, never played with them, and hated to be disturbed. He had out-lived his soldier-contemporaries, his children, his power to ride to hounds, his pretty taste in wine, his fencing, dancing, flirting, and all that had made life bearable--everything, as he said, but his gout and his liver (and, it may be added, except his ferocious, brutal temper). "Yes....
Let us circumvent, decoy, and utterly destroy the common Haddock," agreed Dam. The entry into the nursery was an effective night-attack by Blackfeet (not to mention hands) but was spoilt by the presence of Miss Smellie who was sitting there knitting relentlessly. "Never burst into rooms, children," she said coldly.
"One expects little of a boy, but a _girl_ should try to appear a Young Lady.
Come and sit by me, Lucille.
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