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 Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:20 pm
"They are rather smitten with each other..." The earl sighed, his arms crossed over his chest as he looked out the window. "I have never seen her glowing like that before."
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:27 pm
"Rather," agreed the Duchess. Her tone was dismayed. "Do you suppose that they'll ever marry?" she sighed, her eyes misting. "It's all good and well now, I suppose, but I am growing older, and none of the other boys have even seemed to consider settling down..."
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:37 pm
The earl shrugged. "In all honesty, I have given up on the hopes of seeing Terryn in a wedding gown." He sighed. "It would be nice though."
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:44 pm
"And they're so terribly adamant about not marrying. I suppose the only thing left for us to do is keep pushing them together until they agree." However, the Duchess's voice seemed to have withered, and she was visibly depressed by the thought of never seeing her great-grandchildren. Well, the ones that weren't bastards.
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:47 pm
The earl put his arm around the duchess's shoulder and gave her a comforting squeeze. "Do not worry, I am sure one day they will open their eyes."
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:51 pm
She mustered a small smile for the Earl's sake. "We can always hope." She didn't mean to sound dry, but she was unable to make herself sound sincere. "Should we call them in?"
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:56 pm
"No...come I feel the need for some tea." The earl gave her a smile and patted her hand as he led her from the window.
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:01 pm
"If we did run away," began Marcus, in a drowsy sort of voice, "It wouldn't have to be for very long." He paused. "It wouldn't really be running away...just taking a vacation that was unannounced."
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:03 pm
Terryn nodded. "That is true. And...perhaps we could buy some rings and pretend that we had gotten married...just to appease everyone else that is." She bit on her bottom lip for a moment. "That way, if rumours about us flew up again, it would not be such a scandal."
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:07 pm
Marcus furrowed his brow again. "Yes, I suppose." He thought for a moment. "Or I could arrange for a rumor to be spread that I was planning to propose to you, and everyone would leave us alone completely." Marcus was, of course, not at all comfortable with the very notion of him being regarded as married.
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:09 pm
"Yes...that might work." Terryn grinned. "And thanks to the good king and his Anglican church, we could always divorce if it did not work out."
((that's right! we're now in the time period of Louis VIII))
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:18 pm
OOC: Of France? I thought we were in England?
Marcus laughed. "Thank goodness for that. Lucky, then, that neither of us will be getting married."
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:29 pm
((im sorry...i meant Henry VIII))
"Indeed. Saves us quite a bit of trouble." Terryn leaned in and kissed him, feeling rather excited all of a sudden. "So when do we leave?"
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:35 pm
Marcus glanced at the window. No one was watching them. "We could leave as soon as now, if you'd like. The coach is outside. I have a few clothes and things at each estate, and you could pack right now. The circumstances, it seems, could not possibly be improved upon."
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:36 pm
"I-" Terryn looked up at him, almost a little apprehensive. She had not been expecting such a sudden departure. "But where shall we go?"
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