A Midsummer Night's Sin
“No more than eighteen, set loose on the world just as legitimate heirs had been sent out to complete their educations by dipping their toes into as many corners of the world as were not embroiled in war or otherwise off-limits to them.
He doubted his father’s notion of a Grand Tour included this squalid, smelly, hot as Hades scar on the world. Older, wiser, Puck might have remained in the dockside inn while repairs were completed on the ship bound for Jerusalem. But believing himself immortal or invincible or whatever young men believe of themselves, he had already abandoned his tutor on the docks of Dover and set off on his journey, eager to see and enjoy life, and this place seemed to be teeming with it.
With all the bravado and naiveté of the young and wealthy, he’d left his valet to his laundry and headed for the center of the town to a place his inn host had, in execrable English, identified as the bazaar.
The sun grew hotter, the stench thicker, the crowds bumping shoulder to sh...oulder, the cries from the many booths entreating him to come, see, buy.MoreLess
He doubted his father’s notion of a Grand Tour included this squalid, smelly, hot as Hades scar on the world. Older, wiser, Puck might have remained in the dockside inn while repairs were completed on the ship bound for Jerusalem. But believing himself immortal or invincible or whatever young men believe of themselves, he had already abandoned his tutor on the docks of Dover and set off on his journey, eager to see and enjoy life, and this place seemed to be teeming with it.
With all the bravado and naiveté of the young and wealthy, he’d left his valet to his laundry and headed for the center of the town to a place his inn host had, in execrable English, identified as the bazaar.
The sun grew hotter, the stench thicker, the crowds bumping shoulder to sh...oulder, the cries from the many booths entreating him to come, see, buy.MoreLess
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