Status Updates From The Gypsy Heiress

I will admit that there are gypsies who do steal things, and Grandma did once say that God had made a special rule that it was all right to steal from gorgios but only from gorgios and only if it was something you really needed, like a chicken or a blanket.



Or a horse, child, and such? COME ON ALREADY!

There was a gunshot, and the scene was ended, like a never-to-be-finished book slamming shut.

I am on pins and needles here. Forget about sleep.

Whatever are you going to do, beat me?

With the greatest pleasure.

“My grandmother would have said it was one of the Demon People, a man doomed by the evils of his life to rise from the grave and walk the land as a wolf.”

Goudette’s final deed was to pluck my eyebrows, which was surely an act of unparalleled savagery.

“It’s plain to see that the twit’s stupider than a mule.” She glared at me. “It’s not who lives on the land, you ninny-tinny gypsy, it’s the income from the land.

"My cousin, indeed! Look at her! Our plow horses have better tended hair and her skin’s as sun bitten as a Turk’s. She disgusts me, with her ragged skirt and bare feet. And if you take head lice from her, Vincent, don’t think you can come to my bed with them.”

Isabella is not amused at finding a long lost cousin :p

Did you know there's someone underneath your bed?

Gosh, this is fun.

The maid took the opportunity to explain to me that I was lucky to be incarcerated in a Christian household where the inhabitants felt bound by the laws of charity to provide a fire for all company, be they thieving heathens or no.

"It’s easier to present an unwanted heiress when she’s an innocent girl. The more seasoned you are, the more likely they are to think we’ve staged your appearance.”

I might not be getting much housework done today...

The Earl of Brockhaven was not accustomed to having a direct command disobeyed, and it did nothing to sweeten his temper.

“You promised to let me have first pick of any new fillies at Edgehill.”,

Younger brother Robert is all kinds of mischief...

After my successful read for TBR Challenge, I just had to take another dig through my box of Candlelights.