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"I've been feeling rather wicked led beneath her hand and said, "Oh good Because I saw an advertise to find sohted, of course"
"Although perhaps we ought not bring Belle I'm not sure it's fit for unmarried ladies, and Belle tells h as a chaperone"
"Belle tells you that? "
"Not in so ood thing But I knohich way the wind blows"
"You're not going to the theater without me," Belle put in
"I suppose we shall have to take her," John said with an affected sigh "She can be quite stubborn when she puts her et to work You have so at Persephone as she disappeared down the hall " 'Persephone in the Leet to work soon it's going to be 'Belle sends you to hell' "
"I' in my shoes"
"As well you should be"
John saluted her and then stepped forward and stretched out his ar a dras to rin "What do you think?"
"I think you're marvelous"
John leaned down and kissed her on the nose "Have I told you that I have laughed more in the last feeeks than I have in my entire lifetime?"
Wordlessly, Belle shook her head
"I have, you know You do that to me I don't know quite how you've done it, but you've stripped away er Years of hurt and pain and cynicisain"
Before Belle could tell hiain and was off
A few nights later Belle was cuddled up in her bed, several anthologies of poetry strewn around her "He's not going to fool ain," she said to herself "I'll be ready for hiht be able to trip her up with one of the newer poets Her governess had gone over only the classics with her, and it was only because Lord Byron was so notorious that she'd known "She Walks in Beauty"
A quick trip to the bookshop that afternoon had supplied her with Lyrical Ballads, by Willias of Innocence and Experience by a rather obscure poet named William Blake The proprietor assured her that Blake would soe of Heaven and Hell in addition, but Belle had put her foot down, figuring that there was no way John would be able to find so ros and began to flip through the pages, reading aloud as she went along
"Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,