Insurrection (2010)
“The verges to either side of the track droned with insects and the parched grass rustled in the hot wind that blew dust into the eyes of the travellers and carried on its currents the salt smell of the sea.
Robert, riding behind his father’s men, felt the sun burning the skin between his arming cap and the collar of his hauberk. With him rode his brother and the knights of Carrick. They had been travelling for hours and the horses were tiring, hanging their heads as they plodded along the track.... Their tails switched constantly to ward off the flies that had thickened into clouds the nearer they came to the sea, a dazzling metal sheet in the distance.
Behind the knights, on rouncies and hobbies, rode squires, grooms and servants. Among them was Isobel’s maid, Katherine, riding the good-natured chestnut mare that once belonged to her mistress. Robert could have sold the animal, but the horse was one of the possessions Isobel had loved most and it was more practical, he had reasoned, to offer the mare up for the use of the maid who had become the prime guardian of his daughter.MoreLess
Robert, riding behind his father’s men, felt the sun burning the skin between his arming cap and the collar of his hauberk. With him rode his brother and the knights of Carrick. They had been travelling for hours and the horses were tiring, hanging their heads as they plodded along the track.... Their tails switched constantly to ward off the flies that had thickened into clouds the nearer they came to the sea, a dazzling metal sheet in the distance.
Behind the knights, on rouncies and hobbies, rode squires, grooms and servants. Among them was Isobel’s maid, Katherine, riding the good-natured chestnut mare that once belonged to her mistress. Robert could have sold the animal, but the horse was one of the possessions Isobel had loved most and it was more practical, he had reasoned, to offer the mare up for the use of the maid who had become the prime guardian of his daughter.MoreLess
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