Awaiting the Moon
“He could not conceal from himself that the excitement was almost wholly because he would see Elizabeth again. The trepidation was for other reasons.
He entered quietly, staying in the shadows of the overhanging entry way and observing. As master of the house, he knew that the moment he was known to have entered, everything in the room—every person’s behavior—changed, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.
Bartol was by the fire playing ombre with his sister-in-law. Nikolas smiled; h...is Aunt Katrina had little use for her brother-in-law, and so this must be penance on her part for some imagined wrong. But he was happy to see her feeling well enough to join the company. In the ten years since he had last seen her she had aged and slowed considerably. Adele was doing her needlepoint, a vast canvas on a wood frame, the subject of which was a bloody battle from three centuries before. In years gone by she would have been a warrior princess, he thought, watching her, the silvery blond hair neat in a coronet braid around her head like a crown.MoreLess
He entered quietly, staying in the shadows of the overhanging entry way and observing. As master of the house, he knew that the moment he was known to have entered, everything in the room—every person’s behavior—changed, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.
Bartol was by the fire playing ombre with his sister-in-law. Nikolas smiled; h...is Aunt Katrina had little use for her brother-in-law, and so this must be penance on her part for some imagined wrong. But he was happy to see her feeling well enough to join the company. In the ten years since he had last seen her she had aged and slowed considerably. Adele was doing her needlepoint, a vast canvas on a wood frame, the subject of which was a bloody battle from three centuries before. In years gone by she would have been a warrior princess, he thought, watching her, the silvery blond hair neat in a coronet braid around her head like a crown.MoreLess
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