For Love or Honor by Sarah M. Eden EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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London, October 1815
“I DOUBT MARIE ANTOINETTE LOOKED half so tragic on her way to the
guillotine.”
Marjie had endured this lecture before. She was the first to admit she hadn’t a
tremendous amount of enthusiasm for their evening’s social obligation, but
she understood the necessity.
Marjie’s sister and brother-in-law Philip, the Earl of Lampton, took active
roles in the ton and participated in the never-ending social whirl. Marjie
could not have avoided being thrust into the madness of the London Season
and its horrid “marriage mart.”
Embarking on the business of searching for a husband was not at all what she
wished to be doing. Her affections were long since claimed by a tall, goldenhaired soldier in a dashing blue uniform. Stanley Jonquil had been recalled to
the Continent after Napoleon’s escape from exile, and Marjie’s heart had
gone with him. Yet, she was required to spend the better part of each night
dancing and conversing with gentlemen who paled in comparison, all the
while wishing for the company of the one she loved.
Marie Antoinette’s execution walk felt like an apt comparison.
“I really do not wish to go.” Marjie leaned against her bedchamber door.
Perhaps if she barricaded herself in, Sorrel would allow her to stay. “Must I?”
“If I can endure an evening of dancing, you certainly can.” Sorrel rose
awkwardly from her spot on the edge of Marjie’s bed, reaching for her ebony
walking stick.
Marjie recognized the tightening around Sorrel’s mouth and the way her
expression froze. She was in pain, more so than usual.
Marjie forced herself to stay in place. Her first instinct was always to rush to
her sister’s aid, but Philip had explained to her only a few weeks earlier that
Sorrel did not appreciate being “smothered.”
“Is the brace not helping?” Marjie asked.
“I have been a little sore today,” Sorrel replied dismissively.
Marjie knew her sister did not like discussing her injury nor the frustration
she had endured over the years as she’d attempted to regain her mobility. A
surgery early in the summer had corrected two badly healed breaks in her
right leg, but nothing could be done for her shattered hip.
For months, Philip had corresponded with a doctor whose specialty was
creating braces to correct clubfoot and bent limbs in children. The doctor had
fashioned something similar for Sorrel: an apparatus consisting of a wide,
sturdy belt fitted snugly across her hips and a metal rod connected to the belt
that ran the length of her right thigh, belting around her leg just above her
knee. The doctor’s theory was that the brace would hold the broken pieces of
her hip in place, allowing her to walk with greater stability and less pain.
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