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oh, yes, of course. it is a PLEASURE to meet you at last, your eminence; both my wife and myself have been looking forward to your visit with a great deal of interest. i am lord navarro, the present earl of highhurst. ❞
‘ MANY THANKS, sir. I’ve likewise heard much god on both you & your wife. ‘
WHILE THEstiffness of cordial speech nearly makes her gag, the man is at least INTERESTING of sight, and of stories, not that she was one to ( believe ) such things given her own history, but one could daydream, especially at an event so tiresome.
‘ TELL ME,before I’m met with more policy questions, what was the last earl like. if you knew him, that is. highhurst seems to have kept its STABILITY in rocky times, I cannot say the same for munchkinland. ‘