#50

[jollygoodform]

I don't expect we'll get a repeat like that weather until springtime. Sad, really, it would've been perfect sailing weather had there been a breeze. But I can wait a few more months!

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[jollygoodform]

Well, they haven't exactly been bad curses, Arion. What was I going to do for the last two days, stop people from going swimming?

[jollygoodform]

Yes, but I'm small and I don't have any powers. So I'm almost entirely sure that I wouldn't be able to stop them if they really wanted.

[jollygoodform]

Most girls. Plus I'm not even tall enough to wear tails. You have to be nearly 5'6'' for that. Official Eton rules.

Sometimes that doesn't work out, though.

[jollygoodform]

Except if there's a ball or a formal occasion. I'd bet you're tall enough for them, though! And a top hat, too.

Well, I would have said the sunrise, but getting a look at the last two days, it's not entirely reliable..

[jollygoodform]

Not even for a Christmas present? I think you'd look right swank. A gentleman of fortune, that's you!

Well, nothing here is reliable except its unreliability.

[jollygoodform]

Of course you would! You've just got to learn how to act the part. It's all in the attitude.

Not always!

[jollygoodform]

It's like...pretending that you're in charge of everyone else. You're the captain and the whole world's your ship. Just like that, and then people mistake you for aristocratic. I'll show you!

Exactly right.

[jollygoodform]

You watch, Arion! We'll make you into a proper English gentleman by Christmastime.

Why's that?