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  1. The Oliver-Leo episode is lovely.
  2. A clever change of command that allows the tale to go into Uncharted waters with a heroic captain and his unflappable 'family members'. But could we please do without Tom's "feral" and Edward's "aristocratic" features. We know their character by now.
  3. peter rietbergen

    Chapter 9

    So the school's "only" gay boy may not be as alone as he thinks.
  4. The end of a very entertaining, and also well-researched story. As an avid reader of TL's tales, I yet have a few questions. Jonas, being illiterate, will have some trouble to keep the entire Ashworth business going - even though he has legal help. And though throughout the latter part of the story Tom is described as, at age 14, being too young to serve as a midshipman: most started a few years younger.
  5. Aha, the man who says he always dresses as a Regency dandy - and who, by the way, acted in adult movies...
  6. All true. But we must not forget that the plutocrat elites running the 13 colonies wanted the government in England to militarily protect them - but did not want to pay for it. That, too, contributed to the revolution and to the partly mythical battle for freedom and democracy the USofA proces itself on....
  7. The even was a magnificent disaster - and put to good use in this story. But Händel 's music still is played, almost three centuries later!
  8. The Dowager's Tale really is a great addition. But, by the way, EA being his bastard still doesn't make him a lord...
  9. Fun, again. But again part of the beginning of this chapter- the jewel scene, in the the coach - repeats the last part of the previous one.
  10. This was great fun, worthy of Henry Fielding....
  11. Interesting. But... If M is standing in the subway, how can E's jeans touch the knot of his ties? Et cetera....
  12. Two more interesting women. Looking forward to see how the author will manage to weave the past, the Acaster tale, into the present developments.
  13. Fascinating, again. But the initial paragraphs of this chapter repeat - partly verbatim - the last ones of the previous . And, by the way, why would a royal princess carry a sack with heavy gold sovereigns? At least she would have a jacket doing that for her.
  14. One can feel for C's feelings after what, apparently, he has gone through with his relatives. But... One can also feel for them, and their need: a need of a perhaps childless couple for some contact and affection.
  15. A delightful chapter - full of interesting women, too.
  16. Well, this was excellent, even though the future seems less than easy...
  17. peter rietbergen

    Epilogue

    The perfect ending to a perfect story.
  18. peter rietbergen

    The Road Home

    Given that even the authorities accept that something is wrong, why do they not send a helicopter to rescue Ryan? Or why doesn't Ryan walk away from the cabin at the first daylight to await help at the bridge?
  19. A very interesting chapter. Yet a few things puzzle me. Will said he served in Flanders. Yet he talks about the brave Scottish men and boys he was forced to kill. Did I miss something? And Edward, learning to use a pistol with Paddy, "recognised" Tom. But in previous chapters the boy had joined the three men on various occasions already.
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    Chapter 28

    Indeed they are. Even worse: have you read the news that a South-African lady, seeing how AI works, has "written" 50 - yes: fifty novels - in one year's time and took in more than a million euro's? One wonders why we bother...
  21. Well, this is going to be a really cozy "found family" of sorts. But let's give Tom the chance to decide on his own preference(s).
  22. I know I will not be forgiven but I sincerely doubt that any bishop, Anglican or of other denomination, would ever personally make the round of his parishes to collect the tithes. As to the spending spree that now starts: perhaps not the wisest thing to do if you desperately need to keep a low profile. Kent isn't Northumberland ....
  23. Yet there seem several solutions. Not, perhaps, the one that says: sell the house, though it might be demolished for the worth of its building materials - it happened all over the UK in the 1930s and later. But if there are tenant farms (left), they do have a certain value.
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    Chapter 28

    So cute! Mills&Boone but of superior quality in every other respect.
  25. Though, to return to my remakes after chapter I, if AR turns out to be Amelia's son, he still isn't s Lord, for he'd been born out of wedlock. But could he be Wrexham's bastard? As in the Scaramouche story...
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