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Enchanting

Wed, 07/05/2023 - 6:00am

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January 14 Prompt: any, any, just as stars surrounding the silver moon must hide their gleaming faces when she grows full and shines most brightly over the earth..., written for The Scarlet Pimpernel.

“Why, if the words were only changed from English to French, we might be in one of your old salons,” said a recently arrived French émigré as she joined Marguerite’s party at the concert that evening.

“Indeed, Countess, it would take more than translation to bring our circles together,” was the wry answer given, long repeated and admired after the other was but an afterthought among those in attendance. For though Lady Blakeney now wore the gilt of her husband’s noble ancestors, Marguerite retained a sangfroid all her own—cultivated on the stage and in revolutionary spirit—that captivated the English court as no mere aristocrat could.

Date: 2023-01-14 04:09 pm (local)
From: scytale
any, any, just as stars surrounding the silver moon must hide their gleaming faces when she grows full and shines most brightly over the earth...