Regency Christmas Wishes (9781101220030) by Layton Edith; Jensen Emma & Emma Jensen & Carla Kelly & Edith Layton & Barbara Metzger

Author:Layton, Edith; Jensen, Emma & Emma Jensen & Carla Kelly & Edith Layton & Barbara Metzger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin USA

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The rowing boat bobbed halfway between the shore and Magpie Eyot, and Charles huddled in the stern with a lantern that threw little light as the storm raged mercilessly over the southern counties. The Thames was not only swift and strong, but choppy too, obliging James to work mightily upon the oars to prevent the boat from sliding downstream with the current.

Charles was uneasy on such deep, dark, swift water, especially on a night as cold and inhospitable as this. The joy and merriment of Christmas seemed a universe away, and danger brushed so close that England suddenly seemed more alien and hazardous than the Bengal climes he had known these past years. The swollen river sucked and gurgled along the bank, and gusts of snow stung his face as he listened to the wind rushing through the slender fronds of the great willows, the lowermost branches of which dragged in the water. Ahead lay Magpie Eyot, where the storm was in full cry through the tall Scotch pines.

How far away now that balmy summer day not long after their marriage, when he had rowed Juliet on the sun-dappled river, and gently maneuvered their little boat beneath the willows so he could kiss her in the secrecy of the leafy bowers . . .

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