Outrageous
Outrageous
“Art eyed the wretched hut as the wind and rain battered it. “Here?” He looked around the miserable hamlet in the Welsh mountains of Clwyd.
“It boggles the mind, does it not?” How Marian had come so far alone, and why she’d stopped, Griffith did not understand. The inhabitants of the village had denied her presence at first, but a shiny coin tossed to one of the children elicited a nod at the hovel at the edge of the village. Now, sullen at being deprived of their wealthy boarder, the villagers ...huddled in their doorways and watched through the gale that swept down the west side of the valley.
“Why didn’t she stay with the reverend brothers?” Art demanded. “At least she’d have been safe and warm.”
“And been easy to find,” Griffith added. It was a cold comfort to discover he understood her so well and even half sympathized with her need for flight. Except that she fled from him.
Art unknowingly fanned the flames of his ire. “She’ll snap at ye when ye try to remove her.”MoreLess
“It boggles the mind, does it not?” How Marian had come so far alone, and why she’d stopped, Griffith did not understand. The inhabitants of the village had denied her presence at first, but a shiny coin tossed to one of the children elicited a nod at the hovel at the edge of the village. Now, sullen at being deprived of their wealthy boarder, the villagers ...huddled in their doorways and watched through the gale that swept down the west side of the valley.
“Why didn’t she stay with the reverend brothers?” Art demanded. “At least she’d have been safe and warm.”
“And been easy to find,” Griffith added. It was a cold comfort to discover he understood her so well and even half sympathized with her need for flight. Except that she fled from him.
Art unknowingly fanned the flames of his ire. “She’ll snap at ye when ye try to remove her.”MoreLess
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