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send me 🗣️ for incorrect quotes of our muses: henry & penelope ( @wallflowred )

you’ll have to dance, anwyl. it is expected. dr. barthélemy’s patience, evidently, was not quite so boundless in the ballroom as it was in the operating theatre. lewis couldn’t resent the man, he supposed — he was, after all, here as hippolyte’s guest, and if he made an arse of himself, it reflected just as badly on hippolyte as it did on lewis himself. the censure of the rest of the room was one thing, but his own mentor’s disappointment was infinitely more difficult to stomach. resolving, therefore, to do his best to make some effort, lewis hailed the attention of the first girl to meet his gaze. “ miss... featherington. ” he had forgotten the vast majority of the names he’d tried to remember this evening, but the featherington girls had all been dressed so garishly that it had been rather impossible not to remember them. “ would you, er— may i ask for this dance? ”

Big stone in a clear blue river at Morkidsdalen park Skjolden Norway

𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍    𝖽𝗈𝖾𝗌    𝗇𝗈𝗍    𝗌𝗈𝗎𝗇𝖽    𝗅𝗂𝗄𝖾    𝖺    𝗀𝗈𝗈𝖽    𝗍𝗂𝗆𝖾,    𝗁𝖺𝗏𝗂𝗇𝗀    𝗍𝗈    𝖻𝖾𝗅𝗂𝖾𝗏𝖾    𝖺    𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀    𝗅𝗂𝗄𝖾    𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍.    you    do    not    want    to    continue    thinking    about    it,    about    having    to    believe    something    that    you    cannot    see.    you    are    supposed    to    be    older    now,    no    longer    green    girls    who    are    going    around    trying    to    find    the    perfect    match.    after    so    long    on    the    fringes    of    society,    you    cannot    help    but    feel    a    little    bit    wary.    a    little    too    old    to    understand    matters    of    the    heart.    you    have    long    given    up,    deciding    that    being    a    spinster    is    what    suits    you    best.    you    believe    she    will    join    you    someday,    in    the    knowledge    that    being    alone    is    better    than    to    be    surrounded    by    men    who    do    not    care    about    your    thoughts    or    opinions.    that    would    be    fate    worse    than    death.    perhaps    she    will    join    you,    or    resent    you    for    the    rest    of    your    days    together    once    society    deems    that    you    are    longer    allowed    to    be    on    the    sidelines.    ❝    i    do    not    wish    to    believe    that.    nobody    should    have    to    think    of    that    way    try    and    understand    the    hardship    one    has    gone    to.    ❞

𝗒𝗈𝗎    𝖼𝖺𝗇𝗇𝗈𝗍    𝗁𝖾𝗅𝗉    𝗍𝗁𝖾    𝗌𝗈𝖿𝗍    𝗅𝗈𝗈𝗄    𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍    𝗒𝗈𝗎    𝗀𝗂𝗏𝖾    𝗁𝖾𝗋.    you    do    not    wish    to    push    her,    that    is    not    your    intention    at    all,    but    you    can    see    that    she    is    very    much    in    fact    in    a    snit.    you    know    that    it    is    not    her    fault,    not    completely.    cressida    cowper    has    a    way    of    getting    under    her    skin,    in    ways    that    you    do    not    fully    understand.    she    seems    like    she    is    waiting    for    you.    for    you    to    notice,    for    you    to    decided    that    penelope    featherington    was    no    longer    something    you    needed.    you    had    not    come    to    expect    that    she    would    actively    sabatoge    penelope.    that    she    would    make    everything    possible    to    have    the    eyes    on    her    instead    of    penelope    who    looked    absolutely    stunning    in    her    pink    gown.    you    take    her    arm    now,    trying    to    understand    where    she    is    coming    from,    ❝    perhaps    you    are    not,    but    should    we    still    make    our    leave?    mama    will    not    mind,    and    i    am    sure    that    i    could    convince    your    mother    that    it    is    better    for    us    to    leave    after    that...    debacle.    ❞

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