Status Updates From The Defiant

Getting in some leisure reading before school starts again.

"And whose favor does the powerful Cecil covet now that I'm free to be traded?"

"Alas, m'lady, I think you can see it was match. The Irish male has vanquished the English female."

"An odd analogy, O'Donnell.

Merely a jest, Sir Robert. But I'm afraid not well taken."

Probably not :)

When the time comes I would have them organized into a mob to harass the gentry, to plague the army, what there is of it, and to prickle Whitehall with their needle of peasant revolt.

Keeping track of O'Donnell and his activities in London might be an easy matter after all.

The swordplay between him and Blake had been carefully orchestrated by Robert Cecil, as had today's chance meeting.

Oh yay, lots of plots and counter plots and dirty dealing.

The Queen admires, indeed she dotes, on masculine youth and beauty. You have both Rory O'Donnell.

"I would have better!"

You aspire high, Elizabeth."

"I am a Cecil."

BTW, it's quite refreshing to pick up on 80s MMPB to find it has normal sized font.