Royally Ever After
“Chloe Sharp told her older sister. “Say goodbye and bawl, so that we don’t make a spectacle of ourselves, or set Mama off.”
“Y-yes. Oh, Chloe, I’ll miss you so!” Althea fell weeping on Chloe’s neck, heedless of the wrinkles and stains she made on two of London’s costliest dresses.
Bride and bridesmaid stood in a dimly lit passage that ran between the picture gallery, which extended the west wing’s full length, and the smaller of the two drawing rooms. The larger, the Gold Drawing Room, occupied... the center of the first floor of the Duke of Marchmont’s Jacobean mansion. There hundreds of wedding guests were celebrating Althea’s marriage to Prince Louis of Massbeck-Holveg. From the passage, though, the merriment was practically inaudible.
This was the last time Chloe would see her sister for a long time. Her heart was breaking. Still, she made herself draw away.
“That’s enough,” she said. “We don’t want the Beau Monde to see us with tear-streaked faces and crushed bows and creases.MoreLess
“Y-yes. Oh, Chloe, I’ll miss you so!” Althea fell weeping on Chloe’s neck, heedless of the wrinkles and stains she made on two of London’s costliest dresses.
Bride and bridesmaid stood in a dimly lit passage that ran between the picture gallery, which extended the west wing’s full length, and the smaller of the two drawing rooms. The larger, the Gold Drawing Room, occupied... the center of the first floor of the Duke of Marchmont’s Jacobean mansion. There hundreds of wedding guests were celebrating Althea’s marriage to Prince Louis of Massbeck-Holveg. From the passage, though, the merriment was practically inaudible.
This was the last time Chloe would see her sister for a long time. Her heart was breaking. Still, she made herself draw away.
“That’s enough,” she said. “We don’t want the Beau Monde to see us with tear-streaked faces and crushed bows and creases.MoreLess
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