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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.
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.
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Date: Oct. 24th, 2021 09:20 am (UTC)Anyway—Ewen thinks that it would take a certain amount of skill and courage to lead a raid from the Castle, and behold!
Haha, good point :D But poor Keith must have been pretty disappointed at thinking he'd got Charles himself (I can imagine the message reaching him in a way that implied more certainty, e.g. perhaps the supposed Prince had confirmed his own identity) and then finding out he hadn't. He is certainly a bit rude there!
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Date: Oct. 24th, 2021 11:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Oct. 24th, 2021 11:46 am (UTC)(Surely if it was anything beginning with SH, she'd write 'sh---' rather than 's---'—anyway...)
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Date: Oct. 24th, 2021 02:15 pm (UTC)Okay, I've gone through all the S words in this slang dictionary, and found these insults:
SAUCE BOX. A term of familiar raillery, signifying a bold
or forward person.
SCAB. A worthless man or woman.
SCOUNDREL. A man void of every principle of honour.
SCRUB. A low mean fellow, employed in all sorts of dirty work.
SLAG. A slack-mettled fellow, one not ready to resent an
affront.
The only one that fits the situation is 'sauce box', but I don't know if it really sounds right. Possibly 'scab', but that does seem a bit harsh! 'Slag' is about the opposite of Ewen at that point. : )
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Date: Oct. 24th, 2021 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Oct. 25th, 2021 05:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Oct. 25th, 2021 06:46 pm (UTC)in the sense of "You're Lochiel's eyes and ears amongst my staff and that's going to curtail my freedom to do whatever I like," rather than the espionage/enemy agent sense
Hmm, that does make more sense! Perhaps it is...
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Date: Oct. 28th, 2021 03:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Oct. 28th, 2021 06:29 am (UTC)So it's not far off the date, but perhaps a bit too slangy for a Prince who grew up in Rome.
Definitely getting there, though.
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Date: Oct. 24th, 2021 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Oct. 25th, 2021 04:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Oct. 26th, 2021 12:07 am (UTC)