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Aug. 20th, 2009 09:04 am[Filter: Private]
Your bannerman is desperate to ask me a question, Eli. It's really quite amusing, you should see his face!
He sees me hovering over his daughter, the clothes I've given her, how she looks at me, and the looks that I return to her. I have to admit, it does make me chuckle to play it all up a bit, to see how closely to the edge he'll allow me to walk.
It unnerves him, this old man with such a bawdy reputation and such ugly rumours floating about him, holding his daughter's beating heart in his hand. He isn't sure if he likes it. But he can't bring himself to make a scene of it, or even to protest at all. One of his youngest children, the silly little dreamer, suddenly having a shot at a better marriage than even his heir could hope for? How could he possibly protest that?
Personally, I can't see how he has any say! He did send poor, sweet Anita off to Allba, where she was thoroughly miserable. Doesn't that cause him to write off a few rights? That seems quite fair to me.
I expect he'll give her some well-meaning cautionary tale about me, to teach her to guard her heart. Of course, that will only serve to make her bold in defiance. That's what all women live for, after all, to prove something to their fathers.
Why, it's what you live for, isn't it, my love?
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Now, Eliza, I certainly hope that you're not terribly upset with me, but I'm afraid I've done something you may find entirely untoward!
Your bannerman is desperate to ask me a question, Eli. It's really quite amusing, you should see his face!
He sees me hovering over his daughter, the clothes I've given her, how she looks at me, and the looks that I return to her. I have to admit, it does make me chuckle to play it all up a bit, to see how closely to the edge he'll allow me to walk.
It unnerves him, this old man with such a bawdy reputation and such ugly rumours floating about him, holding his daughter's beating heart in his hand. He isn't sure if he likes it. But he can't bring himself to make a scene of it, or even to protest at all. One of his youngest children, the silly little dreamer, suddenly having a shot at a better marriage than even his heir could hope for? How could he possibly protest that?
Personally, I can't see how he has any say! He did send poor, sweet Anita off to Allba, where she was thoroughly miserable. Doesn't that cause him to write off a few rights? That seems quite fair to me.
I expect he'll give her some well-meaning cautionary tale about me, to teach her to guard her heart. Of course, that will only serve to make her bold in defiance. That's what all women live for, after all, to prove something to their fathers.
Why, it's what you live for, isn't it, my love?
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Now, Eliza, I certainly hope that you're not terribly upset with me, but I'm afraid I've done something you may find entirely untoward!
