Carousel of Hearts (1989)
“One would have been wrong.
The night was just cool enough that a warm masculine arm would have been welcome, Antonia thought regretfully, but her beloved had been fiddling with his miniature telescope ever since they came outside.
They had been betrothed for three whole days now. She suppressed a yawn. At this season the sky didn’t darken until nearly ten, and it was nearing midnight now. She wouldn’t have minded if there had been enough light to admire Simon, but he was only one more shadow in a moonless night.
“There!” His voice was triumphant. “The telescope is now lined up correctly. Take a look through the tube, but be careful not to touch it or it will be knocked out of alignment.”
Obediently Antonia stepped to the tripod that held the tube, which was less than a foot long and perhaps two inches in diameter. As her eye adjusted to the small eyepiece, she gasped in awe. “It’s beautiful!”
Hanging bright against the night was a white-gold sphere with sharp-edged rings above its equ...ator, a vision as improbable as it was lovely.MoreLess
The night was just cool enough that a warm masculine arm would have been welcome, Antonia thought regretfully, but her beloved had been fiddling with his miniature telescope ever since they came outside.
They had been betrothed for three whole days now. She suppressed a yawn. At this season the sky didn’t darken until nearly ten, and it was nearing midnight now. She wouldn’t have minded if there had been enough light to admire Simon, but he was only one more shadow in a moonless night.
“There!” His voice was triumphant. “The telescope is now lined up correctly. Take a look through the tube, but be careful not to touch it or it will be knocked out of alignment.”
Obediently Antonia stepped to the tripod that held the tube, which was less than a foot long and perhaps two inches in diameter. As her eye adjusted to the small eyepiece, she gasped in awe. “It’s beautiful!”
Hanging bright against the night was a white-gold sphere with sharp-edged rings above its equ...ator, a vision as improbable as it was lovely.MoreLess
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