Life And Death Of The Wicked Lady Skelton (2016) - Plot & Excerpts
As they stitched away at their crewel work, their rosemary stitch and needle-point, they chatted about this and that, all, that is to say, but young Lady Skelton, who was embroidering tiny silken nosegays on a flowered taffeta gown, with a patience that by no means expressed her inner feelings, and her sister-in-law Paulina who was always of a silent habit. The Dowager, as usual, was preoccupied with the subject of health – her own and other people’s. Now that the March winds had come round again she must expect to find herself very out of order and troubled with her cough. As a girl her mother had always given her, at this time of year, a chest preservative made of the dried lung of a fox ground to a powder and mixed with a little almond milk or broth. There was nothing like these tried remedies, when all was said and done, but Dr Henley would have none of it, and ordained for her syrup of roses and asses’ milk, which she did not believe to be by any means so efficacious. This reminded her how feeble Cousin Jonathan had grown since his last apoplectic fit.
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