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And then you have the conceit of allowing another person to call you by your first name. You allow them, and then they allow you, and you exchange names. All very scripted, but then becomes an informality

Their lovemaking is as sanitary as possible, but given the narrative satisfying. Not for those that are looking for a great deal of purple. It was subtle, very subtle

With so much chaperoning it is made obvious why so many couples anticipated their vowels, and made love before the wedding night. Who wants to go into something blindfolded?

So the fleeting kisses and embraces that are unsatisfactory leave the betrothed couple chomping at the bit. If they can find a solitaire venue, they will go for it

Well at least the trope of attack that we were expecting was dealt with quite quickly.
Nate was concussed and Henrietta moved in to take care of him. Blah blah blah

The footman standing beside the doorbell, and she nodded. He knocked on the door and waited. Dottie’s made open the door bobbing a courtesy to Henrietta. Come in…

Instead of cell phones they had footman and ladies maids that function in the same fashion.
To employ so many in a household was very inexpensive. Such work was preferable to all strata of the middle class

The Dowager Duchess has taken hold of the reins, and they are now at the point of settling marriage contracts and settlements

A restrained embrace, a kiss, a declaration, and a proposal, all in wooded path in Richmond

At Richmond, the food is set out, and another practice is introduced and that is the competition between friends and the cheeses made on the estates. It is not a competition, but a project to be shared. That is interesting I had not thought of that previously

At this point in the narrative Henrietta has decided that she will have Fotherby to husband.
And she declares it to Merton at breakfast despite her sisters vociferous condemnations

Henrietta asked Merton why he did not seem to have any bruises after fist cuffs with Fotherby and replies he knows how to treat them

Was it with Arnica?

That the author would bring up this issue it’s not a little surprising as she has mentioned many interesting points that surface during the period of this period, specifically Geriacult’s painting of the raft of the Medusa.

What about a midwife? Henrietta
They are difficult to find in London. He pressed his lips together as if he was angry. The medical profession has made it almost impossible for them to become licensed to practice here.

The midwife had responsibility for obstetrics until the 19th century when they were pushed out entirely by doctors who saw them as a threat. Why are we not surprised?

With a flurry of note sent back-and-forth, telling the footman to tell the butler to send off o missive, or what the arrangements are for that afternoon or that evening, it seems like the groom is a human Cell Phone. In fact are all the functionaries within an aristocratic domicile

And instead of text messages they constantly were long hand writing out notes to one another in their various homes in neighboring townhouses. The written word in envelopes were winging their way between friends and family. Instead of iPhones they had messengers, footmen and grooms

The English population of Regency and Georgian periods could be said to constantly planning social gatherings amidst obligations of sitting in the Lords, and watching the weather. Al fresco at Richmond was popular, as a Garden soirees, et
We might say the same of them as us, that we are musing ourselves to death. But at least theirs were not brain dead

The comment was provoked by Henrietta is saying it would be easier for her to fall in love with either Lord Bolin broke or Lord Saint Albans, rather than Nate. It sounds so artificial, but maybe emotions during those periods have been so suffocated that they breathe shallowly. Your human nature does not change much over millennia. And love is a human nature

Did the people in this period think that falling in love was like walking off a cliff? That they could fall in love with somebody that they did not know, just because they wanted to, and what was available was acceptable?
In all ages, the heart wants with the heart wants. And it may be just momentary, and that is walking with eyes closed

Considering the suffocating courteous necessities of the Georgian and Regency periods, It is amazing that men and women could still -,with brief and rare glancing association, without intimacy, determine and decide whom to marry

In the Lords they were debating the approval of the convention of 1818, a treaty between England and the United States that established the 49th parallel as the northern boundary between British North America and England’s former colonies

British North America was Canada. And now in 2026, a president who is no longer resident on earth has plunged us into conflict

Nate has visited Lady Thornhill salon come with groups discussing everything from politics, to Art, two women’s rights, to slavery, each group Ing amongst themselves. He drifted from group to group, superficially tasting a wide banquet of the ideas, in a close narrative, of 1819

For the reader sufficiently curious, and with a strong stomach the following link is provided

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I tell you, his painting of the shipwreck has been accepted by the Paris salon.
I don’t believe it a second man sneered. Gericault has studied with no one important

The painting they are referring to is called the raft of the Medusa, from a horrible account in 1816. The canvas is 23’ x 16’ and is considered one of the masterpieces of the entire 19th century. The story is even more devastating.

Heartily sick of polite chatter..
You betcha

Polite introductions, may I present to you… The gentleman to the ladies, and this is the social map which eventually became what we have now, totally out of control

The main issue is the rehabilitation of Nate in the eyes of Henrietta’s family. As this will occupy the dialogue for the rest of the book except for the underlying plot to harm Henrietta, I think I will continue to skim.

Perhaps my dissatisfaction with the narrative is that I have just come off Joanna Shupe’s bought a stripper of 1895 New York City Gilded Age. The comparison is not one easily made. In 1819 in London it is hard to see how anyone got anything done through the morras of social interaction. Such was a chokehold, almost a hangman not, between male and female, between wealth and not wealth.

Neglected to comment on Nate‘s dog

The Irish Wolfhound is an ancient, giant sighthound known for being the tallest of all dog breeds

calm, dignified, and exceptionally gentle giants
quiet, serene loungers in the household, exceptionally loyal, excellent watch dog
Once you have them you could never have another breed

The locked in politics of social interaction is frozen like ice on a lake. The rules of courtesy are diabolical, Machiavellian and not to be disturbed. And here we have our own culture which has no boundaries in any direction. And a president who left planet earth sometime ago, then it now in a spatial dimension that is indecipherable

The underground element has surfaced. The plot now circles around the family who sold the baby, and who’s brother died from the gunshot wound. They briefly said they were going to ransom the woman for more money. This is not a trope that I find enjoyable, on any level

Forgot to mention that all of the characters in the series have a Chartreux cat and great Danes

The Chartreux is a rare, muscular French cat breed recognized by its solid blue-grey woolly coat and smiling expression.

Another interesting conceit