Game 4, Book 1: The Vote
First of all, the vote on format was decidely in favor of separate books, so you'll have to wait a bit more to find out what Book 2 will be. Let's make that Friday, June 1, 3PM Pacific time as the deadline for this vote. (Sorry about not putting a reminder post here yesterday, but I've been away from the intertubes all weekend. I'll put a reminder out on Thursday, though.)
At any rate, allow me to present...
1. Clarkson groaned as Ferris drew aside the velvet curtains, letting in sunbeams that could only be defined as aggressive.
2. Ferris Castle is an unlikely place for treachery. It is an unlikely place for anything interesting at all, as it happens, unless you count day-trippers laughing at the shiny gargoyles on the mock-Gothic turrets.
3. Fork in hand and crouched over the stove in the kitchen of his large and inconvenient house, Ashby Hall in the county of Sussex, Henry Paradene had begun to scramble eggs in a frying pan.
4. In a manner rather reminiscent of a scout expecting at any moment to be attacked by hordes of ravening wolves, the young man surveyed the castle.
5. Inasmuch as the historic pile of Burford Castle is the most hideous example of Regency architecture in an otherwise picturesque corner of Hampshire, it is unsurprising that Sir Reginald Cox had spent eight months pleading with his nephew to take it permanently off his hands, and that his nephew had spent eight months spurting laughter like an out-of-tune, high-pitched geyser.
6. It was, of course, the cat that started everything.
7. The most taxing problems that face modern mathematicians pale beside the frustrations of an English peer contemplating the problem of the Younger Son.
8. The tone was set for Henry's day when the milkman looked up from fastening his horse's nosebag and grinned in an overly-familiar manner.
9. "This is a rum go, old man," said Henry, looking up from the Racing Post.
Poll Game 4, Book 1: The Vote
At any rate, allow me to present...
1. Clarkson groaned as Ferris drew aside the velvet curtains, letting in sunbeams that could only be defined as aggressive.
2. Ferris Castle is an unlikely place for treachery. It is an unlikely place for anything interesting at all, as it happens, unless you count day-trippers laughing at the shiny gargoyles on the mock-Gothic turrets.
3. Fork in hand and crouched over the stove in the kitchen of his large and inconvenient house, Ashby Hall in the county of Sussex, Henry Paradene had begun to scramble eggs in a frying pan.
4. In a manner rather reminiscent of a scout expecting at any moment to be attacked by hordes of ravening wolves, the young man surveyed the castle.
5. Inasmuch as the historic pile of Burford Castle is the most hideous example of Regency architecture in an otherwise picturesque corner of Hampshire, it is unsurprising that Sir Reginald Cox had spent eight months pleading with his nephew to take it permanently off his hands, and that his nephew had spent eight months spurting laughter like an out-of-tune, high-pitched geyser.
6. It was, of course, the cat that started everything.
7. The most taxing problems that face modern mathematicians pale beside the frustrations of an English peer contemplating the problem of the Younger Son.
8. The tone was set for Henry's day when the milkman looked up from fastening his horse's nosebag and grinned in an overly-familiar manner.
9. "This is a rum go, old man," said Henry, looking up from the Racing Post.
Poll Game 4, Book 1: The Vote