Flight of the Heron read-along: Part II chapters 1-2

[regshoe]

Charlie is my darling, the Young Chevalier...

Flight of the Heron (under the title The Jacobite Trilogy) is doing very well in Yuletide sign-ups—3 requests and 4 offers at present :D

Next week we'll read the second half of Part II, chapters 3 and 4.

Comments

[killclaudio]

Oh, I actually quite like the suggestion of 'spy'? The Prince is annoyed at Ewen butting in where he isn't wanted and asking questions, and there aren't that many short words beginning with 's' that would express that.

I did wonder if the word might be 'scrub', which seems to be a sort of all-purpose insult for someone stupid and useless, but that doesn't really fit the scene, since Ewen is actually being ultra competent - too competent, in the Prince's view. :)

[luzula]

The definition of 'scrub' I found from the 18th century was 'a low mean fellow, employed in all sorts of dirty work,' which doesn't really fit! But yeah, 'spy' interpreted that way instead of as an enemy agent does work better.