Аннотация
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
by Diana Gabaldon
CONTENTS
This book is for Barbara Schnell,
my dear friend and German voice
Chapter 1
All in the Family
London, January 1758
The Society for Appreciation of
the English Beefsteak, A Gentlemen’s Club
To the best of Lord John Grey’s knowledge, stepmothers as depicted in fiction tended to be venal, evil, cunning, homicidal, and occasionally cannibalistic. Stepfathers, by contrast, seemed negligible, if not completely innocuous.
“Squire Allworthy, do you think?” he said to his brother. “Or Claudius?”
Hal stood restlessly twirling the club’s terrestrial globe, looking elegant, urbane, and thoroughly indigestible. He left off performing this activity, and gave Grey a look of incomprehension.
“What?”
“Stepfathers,” Grey explain...
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