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Reflections:Marguerite
This is my first attempt at writing in first person for The Scarlet Pimpernel - obviously, I chose Margot! Two of my favourite chapters in the original novel are those initial introductory scenes with Marguerite and Sir Percy at the Fisherman's Rest - five chapters in, but worth waiting for! There is so much tension between the Blakeneys, and then ( Read more... ) -
Reflections: Marguerite Part Two
We must have arrived. After being woken by a vigorous shaking over the cobblestones, other sounds come slowly to my comprehension as the carriage is finally halted: horses’ hooves on the paved ground, much shouting, and that perpetual thrum of the rain. This, then, is Dover.
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Reflections: Marguerite Part Three
A convincing performance begins with a strong entrance; this is the first lesson an actress must learn if she wishes to become a grand dame of the theatre. Bien! My costume is soiled and I have only my new cane as a prop, but one must do what one can with what is to hand. Armand will say that he does not mind how I look, of course, but he would be ( Read more... ) -
Reflections: Marguerite Part Four
‘How do, Tony? How do, Ffoulkes?’
No, I do not hate him, and can even bring myself to admire him, when he is absent. But that laugh! How should I be expected to hear that braying every day for the rest of my life and not be driven mad? Or having to reply to that ridiculous Devonshire House drawl that I know is only an affectation, ( Read more... ) -
Inner Sanctum
Inner Sanctum
Author’s note: Smutfic! The response to a challenge from a friend to write a scene where Sir Percy and Margot are almost caught in flagrante delicto, hence the PWP? nature of this ‘story’.
Marguerite heard only the double doors jump in their frames, pushed put and pulled back by a sudden draught in the entrance hall; her ( Read more... )
