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Well, Paris is my favorite city (after The City) so I want Granger to enjoy it for a bit, anyway. ;-) I'm glad you liked the chapter, and thanks so much for posting a review!
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You raised an issue I hadn't really considered, and that was whether any of Granger's men from Bacchante would be willing to sail off with Calvert. They know him as well. I suspect some would.
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I suspect that His Majesty's ministers will avoid her at functions until Granger returns. :-) Thanks for the review!
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The author knows, but you don't. ;-) Now the author just has to write it.
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October 3, 1798 Portland Place, London “My lady,” the maid said, jostling Caroline Granger awake. Caroline’s eyes flitted open, but just enough to discern the maid standing over her holding a candle for light. “What time is it?” “It’s four o’clock in the morning, my lady,” the maid said. “I’m sorry to disturb you, but a message just arrived from the Admiralty.” And Caroline was awake, completely awake, immediately. “Where is it
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I look at it this way: if I post a chapter every 4-5 days, I'm allowed to indulge myself with cliffhangers. I think a big part of who Ethan is will be derived from his mother, whom we haven't met yet. She raised him during those formative years. I'm not seeing him as a homophobe though. I mean, he is living in a boarding school. I'll bet Will would like a boarding school. ;-)
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Based on the family he was spawned from, I'm not sure a boarding school is a bad bet. ;-) I think that Elizabeth is on her best behavior because she pretty much has to be, and because she's struggling with her own demons. You just can't see them.
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I agree that having Turner et. al show up was probably an amazing event for Wade. He has genuine respect for them, and that's a high level of regard for Wade. I also think you're right about Wade and his father, but I think Wade knows where things stand, and is in a good place to try and deal with his grief. It will be hard, but not impossible. Brad and Frank have a much tougher road to take.
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Stef (so far). JP (so far). Brad (so far). Lou and Marcel (that we know of). Matt (for now). Darius (probably not). But it does lend itself for good drama.
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Thanks! The senator was good at his affairs. ;-) It's hard to say where Mary Ellen will land when the dust settles, but in the mean time, she's a fun character.
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It's brain exercise. Lift, lift, lift. :-) I think the senator and his will could have gone either way...he either changed it right away, or would have put it off. But knowing his ex-wife, and knowing how she was, he jumped right on it. Kudos to him!
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Thank you so much. Hop on board my emotional roller-coaster and let's go for a ride! :-)
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Thanks! I agree with you. Winkler is someone who has stayed in the same basic role, but has grown along with Granger. If you think about it, the Winkler who originally took over as Granger's servant in The Wardroom wouldn't really be up to snuff as the head servant to the Granger we see in this book.
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Thanks! It's a frustrating time (post 9-11) because there is a positive, fraternal spirit in the air, but it does fade, so one is left to wonder if these acts of contrition are acts or not.
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I think Freddie is just in the wings, waiting to take his place in society/government, but until he shows some value, he's liable to remain in the wings. I suspect the earl has him doing something where he can be productive while not causing too many problems.
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Improbable but possible: that's the rule when going out on the edge. In this case, I think we're at probable, since the senator was such a womanizer.
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Who could forget about Caroline! But I think Winkler and Jacobs had the bigger challenge here.
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Thank you!
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My "admiration" for the US politicians is reaching all time highs ;)
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This guy looks way more butch than I figured for Ferris, but maybe it's just the clothes. They so do not work for "Ferris." -
You want John to fall in love with Marie?
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Red is the best!
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Thanks! Now go watch the Cardinals game!
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September 22, 2001 Georgetown Today had been grueling, with the procession through DC that ultimately ended at the Capitol. There we’d had a service for my father, along with speeches from the President, and comments from several senators and congressmen who praised him for the work he’d done, and for his selfless devotion to public service. And of course there was the standard vitriol against Al Qaeda, and much patriotic preaching. My father had lain there in honor for the
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I think that Jeanine-Brad-Will's story more closely parallels a situation we'd find in Granger's time, where the woman of reasonably respectable lineage is brought in to birth the heir to the throne, and once he's born, she is less useful. I'm not saying that's entirely what happened here, but in a way, once Will came along, Brad really didn't have much to do with Jeanine, and Will and Brad then developed a tight (but volatile) bond.
