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"You’re welco?"

"I ca her neck out like a turtle so she could see Geht clean it out, but it wouldn’t be right to do that with Lady Linnea present," Sissel added, her voice lower than a whisper

"Come back in half an hour She has embroidery lessons then," Gehtfulness"

"No, thank you," Sissel repeated, pressing her shawl to her cheek She glanced at Lady Linnea and gave a wobbly curtsey before she hurried away

Gemma shut the door when the scullery maid disappeared down the hallway

"You are a fool," Lady Linnea said

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"If you sold clothing items like that to the people who questioned your talent, the nasty rumors about your abilities would be silenced," Lady Linnea said, turning so she could lean against the wall in a s--which should be costly and pricy--away to sculleryit a secret from your mother that you occasionally slip out and ride He deserved the coat, My Lady," Ge her stitches

"Maybe, but what about the goose girl? Or that baby blanket you made for one of your father’s customers?" Lady Linnea said before she shook her head "These people should act as your champions Instead they closet your workold"

"Perhaps But I am well fed and well paid I have a job I love I may find the doubts and rumors irksome, but I would rather sew for those who need it and deserve it than raise my esteem in the eyes of people I don’t like and frankly don’t care about," Ge a loose thread with a scissors

Lady Linnea tilted her head as she thought "I redact my comment from before You are not a fool Instead, you are filled with an unspeakably horrid aood will"

Gemma scoffed "Do you know me at all?"

Lady Linnea flopped her upper body on a workbench "I think your cynical expressions and unrelenting pessimism--,"