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"Anna!" she said, looking as if sheso) "What a lovely surprise!"

Anna leaned down to eive Harry a ride home from school"

"Oh, is the terht snorance, as he had neglected to tell her that school was done, but really, shouldn’t a mother keep up on such details?

"Sebastian," Katarina said, turning to her nephew "You’ve grown"

"It happens," Sebastian quipped, flashing her his usual lopsided grin

"Goodness," she said with ser to the ladies soon"

Harry very nearly rolled his eyes Sebastian had already e near Hesslewhite He ive off some sort of scent, because the females positively fell at his feet

It would have been appalling, except that the girls couldn’t all dance with Sebastian And Harry waswhen the smoke cleared

"There won’t be time for that," Anna said briskly "I have purchased a commission for him He departs in ato her nepheith surprise "How grand"

Sebastian shrugged

"Surely you knew, Mother," Harry said Sebastian’s future had been decided severalthat he needed a male influence ever since his father had died And since Sebastian wasn’t likely to come into a title or a fortune, it was understood that he’d have to make his oay in the world

No one, not even Sebastian’s ht the sun rose and set on her boy, had even suggested he consider the clergy

Sebastian wasn’t overly excited about the prospect of spending the next decade or so fighting Napoleon, but as he’d said to Harry-what else could he do? His uncle, the Earl of Newbury, detested him and had made it clear that Sebastian could expect no perks, monetary or otherwise, froested, with all the sensitivity and tact of a nineteen-year-old boy

But then again, it was difficult to offend Sebastian, especially when it concerned his uncle Or his uncle’s only son, the heir to Newbury "My cousin’s even worse," Sebastian replied "Tried to give me the cut direct in London"

Harry felt his brows rise with shock It was one thing to abhor a family member; it was quite another to attempt public humiliation "What did you do?"

Sebastian’s lips curled into a slow save him a look that said he did not believe him for a second

"Oh, very well," Sebastian relented, "but I did seduce the girl at the pub he had his eye on"