Feather Castles
“Left alone in the ornate drawing room, his lordship wandered across to the gilded harpsichord and touched a key, his grey eyes becoming wistful. Tristram had loved to hear little Sally play the instrument. And in the good old days, when Tris and Galen Hilby and Timothy Van Lindsay had come down for the Long Vacation, what jolly parties and musicales there had been. Especially when Carlotta Bryce had been able to come, with her sister Dora. A sharp tongue had Carlotta, but she played the harp ma...gnificently. And, Dora—he smiled nostalgically. Dora had been plump then, true, but always a delight. A most pleasing little lady, Dora Graham. And how long since he’d so much as thought of her … “Kingston!” The low, tragic cry brought him swinging around to meet his sister, the Countess of Mayne-Waring, who bore down upon him like a galleon in a stiff breeze, her train shushing along the floor behind her. “So you are come home,” she said, giving him her hands. “And without our dear one, alas, as I knew you must.”MoreLess
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