The Lords' Day (Retail)
“‘ARE YOU ASLEEP, MAMA?’ She said nothing, but pursed her lips in a withering expression of denial.
‘Some seem to have managed it,’ the son protested in his own defence. Charles Philip Arthur George, the Prince of Wales and, alongside that, the Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Lord of the Isles and Butt of Much Criticism, stretched out his stiffening legs and surveyed the scene in front of them.
‘Then they have a better conscience than I,’ his mother ...replied.
‘You’ve no reason for reproach.’ ‘They might die, these people, all because of me. And they know it. If I weren’t here, then none of this would have happened.’ ‘These thugs would have found some other excuse.’ ‘Perhaps, but today I bear the responsibility.’ ‘As every day.’ They were speaking in whispers, leaning towards each other, conscious of the gunman immediately behind them and trying not to attract attention, looking out at the others rather than at each other, as they had done for so much of their lives.MoreLess
‘Some seem to have managed it,’ the son protested in his own defence. Charles Philip Arthur George, the Prince of Wales and, alongside that, the Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Lord of the Isles and Butt of Much Criticism, stretched out his stiffening legs and surveyed the scene in front of them.
‘Then they have a better conscience than I,’ his mother ...replied.
‘You’ve no reason for reproach.’ ‘They might die, these people, all because of me. And they know it. If I weren’t here, then none of this would have happened.’ ‘These thugs would have found some other excuse.’ ‘Perhaps, but today I bear the responsibility.’ ‘As every day.’ They were speaking in whispers, leaning towards each other, conscious of the gunman immediately behind them and trying not to attract attention, looking out at the others rather than at each other, as they had done for so much of their lives.MoreLess
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