Re: Games of Pretension- 2/?
anonymous
October 22 2011, 17:26:42 UTC
The house keeper strode forward to grab Alfred, but he hid behind Arthur who shielded him. She hadn’t seemed to realize that Arthur was there, or who he was, until Alfred hid behind him and when she noticed, she quickly curtsied
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Games of Pretension- 7/?
anonymous
November 21 2011, 13:32:03 UTC
He had not been able to make a trip to the country for some months one year, when the boys had been thirteen years old. It had been a spectacularly dramatic season, and his mother had encountered a spot of money trouble, and he had been entirely preoccupied. He knew Francis had had a better time of it, and he had written Arthur regularly on the state of affairs at the manor and with the boys. Satisfied that Francis was taking care to what needed to seen to, he had allowed himself to focus on his life in the city
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Re: Games of Pretension- 3a/?
anonymous
October 23 2011, 21:50:21 UTC
So here he was, with a seven year old ward and huge estate and property to be managed. He’d have his hands properly full. But that was selfish. It was Mathew and Alfred’s life as well as his own. And from then on, Arthur took his duty as their worldly defender very seriously. Regardless of the fact that he supposedly shared the responsibility with Francis, Arthur still looked after the business for both of them. Francis was really on a guardian in that he sometimes made visits and brought presents. Regardless, legally he was in charge of Mathew
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Re: Games of Pretension- 3b/?
anonymous
October 23 2011, 21:54:16 UTC
He visited the boys whenever he had the chance, which was more so in the off of the high social season, when his attentions were less sought after in London. When such was the case, the country was his regular refuge. Even so it had been almost a year since he had first come to know that grand dark manor house and the brightness it held within it
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Loving it, a!, just loving it! Can't wait fir the more to come!
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