5/10/2023 0 Comments Looking for Group by Alexis Hall![]() ![]() What settles what? And in what must we intervene?” ![]() I interrupted you with my self-impalement. “Unlike this fine point”-Viola put her needle aside-“which was very ill-taken indeed.” ![]() That drew an appreciative chuckle from Lady Marleigh. “If putting pictures on cloth was the province of men, you may be quite sure it would be hailed as the miracle of the age.” “Don’t you think that’s rather a matter of perspective?” Viola gazed upon her only mildly blood-spattered willow. It is not making a picture of a willow tree on cloth.” “My dear, an accomplishment is inventing the hydraulic press or investigating the properties of nitrous oxide. “Well, forgive me for attempting to acquire some accomplishments.” Viola shot her an amused look from beneath brows whose tilt, she knew, inclined to the devilish. “You do know,” remarked Lady Marleigh dryly, “that contrary to popular belief needlepoint is not mandatory for our sex.” It was simply that she had driven her embroidery needle into the pad of her thumb. Her paid companion, Miss Viola Carroll, answered with a squawk. I’m afraid that settles it.” Having come to the end of the letter she had been reading, Lady Marleigh brandished it in a rather warlike fashion. ![]()
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