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Mar. 31st, 2006 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mistressmaryquitecontraryThe knock on Colin's door is loud and ominous.
- that doesn't matter much, however, as Mary marches in immediately after knocking and folds her hands neatly over her lap.
"Good morning, Colin."
- that doesn't matter much, however, as Mary marches in immediately after knocking and folds her hands neatly over her lap.
"Good morning, Colin."
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Date: 2006-04-01 06:47 am (UTC)"You shall need to bring something that you can wear for shade - and a good deal to drink. And weapons to protect against the pisacha, for they likely will not wish to be saved now that they are demons."
She considers him for a moment, before adding, "and something to wrap over the handles of your wheelchair - for they will get quite hot in the sun."
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Date: 2006-04-01 06:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-01 06:56 am (UTC)"I do not know," she says, cautiously, "if I should tell Martha where we are going.
She would feel obliged to stop us, I think - because it is what Mrs. Medlock would wish."
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Date: 2006-04-01 07:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-01 07:05 am (UTC)"She would not if Mrs. Medlock asked her where we had gone while we were gone?"
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Date: 2006-04-01 07:10 am (UTC)He is Confident of this.
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Date: 2006-04-01 07:16 am (UTC)More brightly: "I shall have to tell Dickon, in any case."
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Date: 2006-04-01 07:29 am (UTC)But he could.
Totally COULD.
"Who else is going?"
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Date: 2006-04-01 07:31 am (UTC)"She has a machine that shall take us there - next I see her I will ask. I do not think she will say no, seeing as it is so important."
She considers. "Also there is Goldilocks - she wished to see India. So," she adds, generously, "I said she might come if she liked. Since she has not been."
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Date: 2006-04-01 07:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-01 07:59 am (UTC)Mary's face dares him to challenge that.
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Date: 2006-04-01 08:13 am (UTC)He's mostly just curious.
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Date: 2006-04-01 08:23 am (UTC)Besides," she adds, loftily, "it is not up to Martha the people with whom I choose to associate. I may associate with whomever I choose. If it were up to them I should not be associating with you."
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Date: 2006-04-02 04:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-02 04:48 am (UTC)Mary's never been able to say that before, after all.
"Martha does notknow everybody that I know."
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Date: 2006-04-02 04:50 am (UTC)Colin vaguely suspects the majority of people are.
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Date: 2006-04-02 04:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-02 05:01 am (UTC)"I liked Susannah. She has very pretty skin."
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Date: 2006-04-02 05:04 am (UTC)"I do not know Susannah," she decides, finally. "What is it that makes her skin so pretty?"
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Date: 2006-04-02 05:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-02 05:07 am (UTC)She had thought it might be something interesting, like velvet or plaid skin.
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Date: 2006-04-02 05:13 am (UTC)"She is still very pretty. Prettier than you." He thought natives would be, well. Not like people. "She did not sound like a native." He has asked.
Perhaps he did not understand the answer.
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Date: 2006-04-02 05:19 am (UTC)And not all natives sound alike - there are many of them that speak different dialects."
With some smugness: "I know how to say things in several."
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Date: 2006-04-02 05:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-02 05:22 am (UTC)Mary thinks people should say what they mean.
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