![]() ![]() They sit quietly in corners, appearing abandoned and forlorn, when in truth they're sirens who lure men to their downfall. ![]() "That explains it." He was silent for a moment, lost in some distant, pleasurable memory. Sebastian, who had begun to laugh, seemed struck by that last comment. She told one of them that a carriage horse had recently stepped on her foot, and she told the other that the butler had accidentally slammed her leg in the door." Gabriel took a swallow of brandy before finishing grimly, "No wonder she's a wallflower." Two of the fellows I went drinking with last night said they'd asked her to waltz on previous occasions. ![]() Not to mention peculiar: She goes to balls but never dances, only sits in the corner. Constitutionally incapable of guarding her tongue. Looking more and more interested, his father asked, "What is the problem with her, then?" Gabriel went to an inset sideboard to pour himself a brandy. ![]()
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