The Ballad of Gregoire Darcy by Marsha Altman

Author:Marsha Altman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Published: 2011-04-06T14:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 22

A Matter of Propriety

IT HAPPENED THAT TWO LADIES were riding to Town, one an earl’s wife and the other her cousin, when they spotted two people walking down the road with bowls on their heads. They were tempted to tell the curricle driver to slow down so that they might get a better look, but seeing that the couple were armed, they decided otherwise. They didn’t look much like bandits—one was a woman in a silk bathrobe and the other a man walking on wooden sandals.

“How curious!”

“Oh, that’s just Princess Maddox,” said the driver. “She was heir to some small kingdom in Austria until she married an English gent. Comes up and down all the time. And ’er servant, I guess.”

He did slow down a bit, but the travelers ignored the curricle, talking in their nonsense language so fast that the words were impossible to pick apart. “How strange, those Austrians!”

“Indeed, ma’rm.”

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