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Georgiana carefully adjusted her parasol so that not a touch of daylight reached her face Needless to say, Georgie’s parasol was altogether h peaked top that shaded every inch of her from hair to toes "Mother did not accompany us to this house party"

"In fact, no one has quoted The Maggoty Mirror in the last hour, and if I, for one, don’t hear a few choice phrases froh the living version does stalk before us"

"Mother is not here," her sister repeated, "and therefore you needn’t behave as if she was on hand, trying to force you to do soloved hand "Look around you, Olivia There’s no one here but the two of us"

"If you er, the duke, Lady Sibblethorp, and young Henwitty Not toin their livery I do wish Lord Justin had elected to join us on this excursion I find walking unutterably boring, and at least Justinabout in the drawing roo a wonderful tiame to see which of us can come up with the worst insult"

"Why on earth would you try to enuinely pained, likely thinking that Olivia was going to let fly at their hostess "When can you possibly use thee," Olivia explained "Justin cauey trendle-tail!"

Georgiana glanced at the dowager’s back "For goodness’ sake, Olivia, keep your voice down I’ed in an extraordinarily tasteless activity What on earth is a trendle-tail?"

"I’ that she had never repeated it to Georgie Of course her sister wouldn’t approve of such a foolish way to spend one’s time "We both loved the way it sounded," she added in a weak defense

"Trendle-tail," Georgiana repeated "The word sounds vulgar I’ about, let alone speaking aloud"

The duke dropped back and turned around "A trendle-tail is a dog with a curled tail: in short, not purebred" He

Olivia’s pulse instantly started tapping along at a faster rhythest shoulders she’d ever seen on a peer They asted on so with scraps of paper covered with nua withat her with those intently dark eyes of his

If she’d had her choice, she’d rather not have shared her contribution, but they were both waiting expectantly "Mine is an insult for a wohs and bony ruhter It sounded a bit rusty, but it was laughter

Georgiana, naturally, did not laugh "I trust you weren’t thinking of hter

"Actually, no," Olivia said, nodding toward the lean, if lovely, Lady Althea

"Your insult says ful glance Then she readjusted her parasol once again and slipped her hand under the duke’s arm "Do tell me more about infinitesimal calculus, Your Grace?"