Аннотация
Lord John and Private Matter
by Diana Gabaldon
To Margaret Scott Gabaldon and Kay Fears Watkins,
my children’s wonderful grandmothers
Chapter 1
When First We Practice
to Deceive
London, June 1757
The Society for the Appreciation of
the English Beefsteak, a Gentlemen’s Club
It was the sort of thing one hopes momentarily that one has not really seen—because life would be so much more convenient if one hadn’t.
The thing was scarcely shocking in itself; Lord John Grey had seen worse, could see worse now, merely by stepping out of the Beefsteak into the street. The flower girl who’d sold him a bunch of violets on his way into the club had had a half-healed gash on the back of her hand, crusted and oozing. The doorman, a veteran of the Americas, had a livid tomahawk scar that ran from hairline to jaw, bisecting the socket of a blinded eye. By cont...
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