Status Updates From Night of the Scoundrel (The...

Aside from what little spice trade the Portuguese cling to, they still import another commodity that is highly desirable.

Diamonds. From Brazil, through Goa. Easy to transport, easy to conceal, and accepted as payment the world over.

At the time, I never understood his need to capture individual moments. Now I wish I could have just one of those moments back.

brilliant yellow burst at the center of each flower ringed by white and then an ever-deepening amethyst = heartsease: in the Renaissance they represented remembrance, memory, and spiritualization

Secrets lose their power when they are shared. Grief loses its burden when it is shared.

But it’s a fine line, that which lies between justice and revenge. And neither can bring back the dead, nor undo past wrongs.

Revenge is a dangerous mistress. Sir Francis Bacon once wrote, “A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.”

Sir Francis also wrote, “Revenge is a kind of wild justice. If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.”

Hercules was a Roman hero, adapted from the Greek Heracles. But it was Heracles who fell to madness and killed a child.

There are two types of people… Wolves & sheep. Predators & prey. Marstowe is predator of most monstrous sort.
There are shepherds too.
Shepherds … spend their lives exposed to worst elements, trying to protect creatures too dumb to understand that they need protecting or understand what shepherd risks on their behalf.
Sometimes shepherds hide dogs w/in sheep. Clever, cunning animals that do not fear wolves.

You need me to wait?

Thank you but no. You’ve spent enough time in the cold-

I reckon you’ve ’bout paid me enough this evening to wait for you till Christmas. ‘Tis no trouble.

Name your price.

Falaise d’Argent

What is that?

A chateau. Near Lille. In France.

Done.

Done? You don’t even know what it would cost to -

Money is of no consequence. I will buy you the entirety of Versailles if that is what you require.

Adrestia- meaning “the inescapable”. Goddess of retribution and vengeance.

Some say Adrestia was handmaiden to the merciless Nemesis.

And some say they were one and the same.

titled & wealthy … cling to the illusion that they are … better than those who circle each other in the desperate shadows of London’s streets.
… the only true difference between the groups, aside from their tailoring, is that those living on the streets do not cling to illusion of any sort.

Above her head were vast chandeliers, their crystal drops glittering like clouds of diamonds.

Featured as a bonus in the copy of Elizabeth Hoyt’s “When a Rogue Meets His Match” that I borrowed from the library

DNF in Chapter 9
Reads like fan fiction of Hoyt's Maiden Lane, but the characters are somewhat flat. The heroine opens the Regency era tale anonymously fencing bad guys in a dark alley in the slums of St. Giles. The anti-hero is the crime lord, King, who lifted himself from the poverty by wit and violence. Magnetically drawn to one-another, they work together to defeat a black-hatted villain.