Fairchild's Lady (Culper Ring Series) - Plot & Excerpts
The air was still cool and damp, and it reminded him of home. If he closed his eyes, he could imagine he sat in the gardens at his father’s Hampshire estate. He could pretend he was still a boy, with no cares beyond avoiding his tutor as long as he could manage it and devising a new trick to play on his older brothers. Sometimes he could scarcely believe that he had wandered so far from what had once been home. That he had seen the Americas, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean. That he had fought in wars, had commanded troops, had watched so many friends fall beneath the sword. And that when he had returned to Fairmonte, it had still all seemed the same. Untouched. He stretched out his fingers, yearning for the familiar pages of his Bible. He hadn’t dared bring it with him—’twas an English translation, and he hadn’t a French one. And though he would by necessity confess to Lady Poole and Lady Julienne that he was British, he could not risk anyone else discovering it. They would certainly remain silent because it was their secrets he carried.
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