A Lady of Talent (2005)
“Sedley took the note from Sebastian’s footman and added it to the pile of correspondence.
It lay on top of the letters from friends in Europe and tradesmen’s bills demanding Cecilia’s attention, the bold, forceful script compelling her to open it up and read the words inside: You are free.
Cecilia gave an involuntary gasp and dropped the note as if it were a hot poker. The vowel fluttered to the floor.
His sister’s gasp made Neville look up from his buttered eggs to see the blood draining from ...her face. Curious, he picked up the piece of paper that had floated under the breakfast table. “I say, that is a bit of luck, isn’t it? I wonder—”
“I do not wonder at all,” his sister hissed, rising so rapidly that her chair nearly fell over. “And it won’t do! I tell you, I will not have it. I will pay back every penny myself if it takes the rest of my life to do so.”
“Will not have what, Cecy? What ever are you doing?”
But Cecilia was gone before Neville could finish his sentence, only to sweep past the breakfast room not two minutes later wearing her bonnet and pelisse.MoreLess
It lay on top of the letters from friends in Europe and tradesmen’s bills demanding Cecilia’s attention, the bold, forceful script compelling her to open it up and read the words inside: You are free.
Cecilia gave an involuntary gasp and dropped the note as if it were a hot poker. The vowel fluttered to the floor.
His sister’s gasp made Neville look up from his buttered eggs to see the blood draining from ...her face. Curious, he picked up the piece of paper that had floated under the breakfast table. “I say, that is a bit of luck, isn’t it? I wonder—”
“I do not wonder at all,” his sister hissed, rising so rapidly that her chair nearly fell over. “And it won’t do! I tell you, I will not have it. I will pay back every penny myself if it takes the rest of my life to do so.”
“Will not have what, Cecy? What ever are you doing?”
But Cecilia was gone before Neville could finish his sentence, only to sweep past the breakfast room not two minutes later wearing her bonnet and pelisse.MoreLess
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