Far too soon, they arrived at the Everetts townhome. Williams announced them into the drawing room and they were greeted with warmth and delight. The Count exclaimed, “Tell me Mr. Turner, how did such ordinary fops like us obtain two such magnificent wives?” “All tricks and magic your Grace. Nothing else can account for it” Joseph smiled warming to subject. “Ordinary fops?” Blair re-joined “One would hardly call a Count and world famous artist ordinary”. “Oh, I see Joseph. Blair married me for my title and Mrs. Turner for your fame and glory!” “Nonsense.” Elizabeth answered joining the fun, “Blair married you for your money and I married Joseph for his, a-hem, shall we say hidden talents” and promptly turned pink from embarrassment while
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They weren’t young for one thing; they were mature, seasoned adults. The clothes they wore spoke of modest wealth and the dress Juliet wore looked remarkably like the dress she once wore to tea. The story unfolded with the couple falling in love but rather than the couple being divided by family, the key to their struggle was a Machiavellian character named Lady Slitherings. “Romeo, I dread discovery of our love will unleash the dragon in all her wrath. She blames me for her lost love. She will blacken our name and taint it with words of disdain and vulgarism. I cannot bear it. We will be shunned and not able to so much as walk in the village without revilement and derision”. “Fair Juliet, then let us marry before God, for there is no truer judge of our souls and hearts than he. And we will bear the infamy together but know the purity is blessed by a power far greater than …show more content…
“Fair Juliet, I cannot bear it... I will take you away; we will live quietly somewhere secluded from the world and all its earthly, iniquitous intentions”. And then Romeo rose distraught and ragged and faced the crowd while the menacing Lady Slithering hunched in profile away from him, pen in hand. “I fear I will lose her to this lowly place. There seems no honor and is riddled with charlatans and prevaricators. I c-cannot … go on without my fair Juliet. Perhaps we were too happy, our love too great. Mayhap it is a good thing if we die and enter a far better kingdom”. His eyes implored the crowd. “Which shall it be?” And with that Lady Slithering eyed the crowd in a menacing glare side by side with
They weren’t young for one thing; they were mature, seasoned adults. The clothes they wore spoke of modest wealth and the dress Juliet wore looked remarkably like the dress she once wore to tea. The story unfolded with the couple falling in love but rather than the couple being divided by family, the key to their struggle was a Machiavellian character named Lady Slitherings. “Romeo, I dread discovery of our love will unleash the dragon in all her wrath. She blames me for her lost love. She will blacken our name and taint it with words of disdain and vulgarism. I cannot bear it. We will be shunned and not able to so much as walk in the village without revilement and derision”. “Fair Juliet, then let us marry before God, for there is no truer judge of our souls and hearts than he. And we will bear the infamy together but know the purity is blessed by a power far greater than …show more content…
“Fair Juliet, I cannot bear it... I will take you away; we will live quietly somewhere secluded from the world and all its earthly, iniquitous intentions”. And then Romeo rose distraught and ragged and faced the crowd while the menacing Lady Slithering hunched in profile away from him, pen in hand. “I fear I will lose her to this lowly place. There seems no honor and is riddled with charlatans and prevaricators. I c-cannot … go on without my fair Juliet. Perhaps we were too happy, our love too great. Mayhap it is a good thing if we die and enter a far better kingdom”. His eyes implored the crowd. “Which shall it be?” And with that Lady Slithering eyed the crowd in a menacing glare side by side with