Henry Martyn by Smith L. Neil

Author:Smith, L. Neil
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York : T. Doherty Associates
Published: 1991-08-27T04:00:00+00:00

222 HENRY MARTYN

her own, but possessing promising intellect) she had sought and won employment as a tutor among the capital's wealthiest, most influential families, whose money and power failed to prevent them shuddering at its mention. Even more responsible positions had exposed her to progressively more disturbing rumors regarding the crippled Shandeen. And, in the end, he had proven himself every bit the black and terrible presence of which her friends and employers had warned her.

Of course, Alysabeth had to be considered, as well— "Alysabeth Morven Islay" as she now styled herself. Lia's acquaintance with the Black Usurper's daughter was more recent. In Lia's view, Alysabeth had, with both hands, cast away everything which Lia herself had ever hoped for, and, with it, any right to bear so honorable a surname. Moreover, since, through her father's treachery, it had become attainted, why should she wish to? Without understanding Alysabeth in the slightest, without knowing the particulars of her life, Lia knew her, nonetheless. She represented everything that disgusted and terrified Lia in a human being.

Thus the unbearable guilt she felt for never having warned her kind employer, good friend, and father-in-law-to-be concerning his best friend, the man who had become, in what she had always privately thought a bizarre twist of events, his father-in-law. Never mind that it had not been her place to do so, even after she had become engaged to Robret's^5. Never mind that, without doubting her sincerity, he would have dismissed it all as idle capital-world gossip. Lia felt she should have found a way. And if she had everything would now be so different.

Who was that dark-eyed girl? What kind of name was Fionaleigh?

"Who do you suppose that young woman was?" Morven leaned back in his wheeled chair and spun the thille he had just pulled from the reader upon the polished surface of the desk before him. As a matter of course he had ordered a copy made before allowing the message to be passed along, but this was the first opportunity he had found to view it.

Standing with one hand upon her father's shoulder, Alysa-

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