1635: The Tangled Web by Virginia DeMarce

Author:Virginia DeMarce [DeMarce, Virginia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Alternative histories (Fiction), Science Fiction, Europe - History - 17th century, Space Opera, General, Fantasy, Adventure, Historical, Thirty Years' War; 1618-1648, Fiction, Time travel
ISBN: 9781439133088
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 2009-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Clara Bachmeierin verw. Stade and verh. Jenkins traveled to Badenburg, her new daughter in her arms, to express the view that she was more than a little upset by this plan. Considering that the man had two other wives, which she told Helena months and months ago!

She arrived in the middle of a family battle.

"I'm not going to leave school and apprentice to a pewterer," Jergfritz proclaimed. If you try to make me, I'll just run away from home." He stopped a minute. "Like Liesel Bodamer did. Martin told me about that."

"You're the heir, now that Dietrich is dead."

"Let someone else inherit it." At thirteen, he was too young to focus on the economic realities, Clara thought.

But he wasn't.

"David Schreiner is going to marry Aunt Marliese next month."

Clara nodded. This was true. Maria Elisabetha and David had been betrothed since the previous autumn. She had told Wesley's family about it at Thanksgiving. She remembered that.

"He's the city clerk. He says that I can live with them while I finish Latin school. And he'll see to a university education for me. And find me a clerkship when I'm done, if I do well." Jergfritz looked up defiantly. "And if you let me stay with them, they'll take Hanswilli and Mag, too."

Those were Agnes's two oldest children by Willibald Fraas. Johann Willibald and Maria Agnes.

Now the boy had his arms crossed over his chest. "That will just leave Hansjerg and the baby for the rest of you to worry about. I think it's a good deal, myself. And I made it with them. Without help from any of you," he waved one arm, encompassing everyone else in the room, "grown-ups."

"But," Helena sputtered, "how did you figure all this out?"

"If the king of Sweden could fight battles when he wasn't any more than a year older than me, I figured that at the bare least I ought to be able to take care of myself." He reverted to looking like a sulky child. "I'll be damned if I'm going to spend my life in a pewter shop."

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