( The title has become as a ball and chain to her within the past two years. Any prestige and meaning it had once borne for her are long since gone.
But he is kind, and she has known so little of that that she marks it.
Bowing her head a little, she sighs. )
He was. England knew peace during his lifetime; he was never defeated on the field, and left a surplus in the treasury at the time of his death. Fever, of all things.
Father wanted to surprise us all, by going fishing himself for our supper. He fell in the river and never recovered.
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( The title has become as a ball and chain to her within the past two years. Any prestige and meaning it had once borne for her are long since gone.
But he is kind, and she has known so little of that that she marks it.
Bowing her head a little, she sighs. )
He was. England knew peace during his lifetime; he was never defeated on the field, and left a surplus in the treasury at the time of his death. Fever, of all things.
Father wanted to surprise us all, by going fishing himself for our supper. He fell in the river and never recovered.