Borne in Blood
“She flung herself down on her bed and let herself give way to her roiling emotions. “How could he?” she demanded of the thick goose-down comforter that lay folded at the foot. Pressing her face against the glossy satin, she pretended to muffle her sobs. The presentation note that accompanied the brooch dropped from her fingers and seemed to mock her from where it lay on the carpet.
My dear niece, On the occasion of your entering the age of marriage.
Your uncle and guardian von Ravensberg It was bad enough to be eighteen, but to be reminded so callously that she was single was intolerable. This rebuke—for it could be nothing less than a rebuke—was the harshest he had given her in four years of increasing rejection. How dare he slight her? Had he not pledged his devotion to her a decade ago? Had she been a fool to believe him; he had changed so much in the last four years that she felt she no longer knew him, nor he her. Now she sighed and put her hands together, her face stinging from ...her concentration and tears, and rolled onto her side, as guileless as a child.MoreLess
My dear niece, On the occasion of your entering the age of marriage.
Your uncle and guardian von Ravensberg It was bad enough to be eighteen, but to be reminded so callously that she was single was intolerable. This rebuke—for it could be nothing less than a rebuke—was the harshest he had given her in four years of increasing rejection. How dare he slight her? Had he not pledged his devotion to her a decade ago? Had she been a fool to believe him; he had changed so much in the last four years that she felt she no longer knew him, nor he her. Now she sighed and put her hands together, her face stinging from ...her concentration and tears, and rolled onto her side, as guileless as a child.MoreLess
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