With All My Heart
“And then she had seen Charles and James, now returned from London, board the royal yacht, taking Minette and Jemmie and Frances Stuart with them so as to have that last half hour en famille. A few miles off shore the Fleet had anchored again, and Charles’s “Greyhound” was bobbing against the flag ship’s dark hull. Using his Dutch telescope, she had been able to make out people, like black ants, climbing from yacht to warship. It had seemed an age before the ships had disappeared into a hazy hor...izon and the yacht, with billowing sails, had scudded back to Dover. Charles, a detached foreshortened figure, had disembarked and was striding off the quay, the rest of the party streaming after him in dispirited groups. And later she had heard his footsteps echoing along the stone passage. And then the banging of his door.
And now a baleful silence reigned over the Castle. James and Frances were up on the battlements watching the last of the Fleet, and talking over old times no doubt.MoreLess
And now a baleful silence reigned over the Castle. James and Frances were up on the battlements watching the last of the Fleet, and talking over old times no doubt.MoreLess
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