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[post]Mattie smiled at the name he gave, but bit her tongue because it didn’t do to laugh at strangers’ names, handsome or not. In any case – “Not strangers now. Matilda Farris,” she said prompt...
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[post]Her cloak was more style over substance, primarily intended to be fashionable, and the stunted progress of the sleigh ride had already seen her outside longer than she perhaps ought to have been...
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You've found Mattie (https://charmingrp.com/showthread.php?tid=18200&pid=160049#pid160049) in an abandoned sleigh outside during the Snow Ball.
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[premise]23rd December, 1895 — Outskirts of Wellingtonshire, on a sleigh ride from the Snow Ball (https://charmingrp.com/showthread.php?tid=18140&pid=159602#pid159602)[/premise]
[post]The year had sta...
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[post]He had called her Farris back. She had not quite expected this, to get back what she had given. For her to do so might have been haughty of her, but for him (a supposed gentleman) to drop all ni...
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[post]She supposed this was not quite the cruel twist of fate it felt like – this was, after all, the library’s section on dragons. But of all the dragonkeepers in Avalon Glen, of course it had ...
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[premise]30th November, 1895 — Crowdy Memorial Library, London[/premise]
[post]Things like this had never been supposed to happen to her. In her first nineteen years, Mattie had never a lack of contr...
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[post]Just when she thought she had won him over, she discovered that she had pushed him too far. Or, in this case, Mr. Orpington had shoved her back with as much mortifying force as he’d grasped her ...
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[post]“Just the handsome ones,” Mattie said first purely because she could, with her makeshift chaperone too far away and too preoccupied to overhear. “...No,” she admitted after, once she had properl...
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[post]Mr. Orpington didn’t need to like her one whit, because she could tell already that he liked this well enough. He was no stranger to it, and yet there was some surprising urgency in the way his ...
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[post]This was irritating to the maximum – when the housemaid (a girl half a dozen years older than her, and otherwise quite dull) who was supposed to be chaperoning her on some boring errands a...
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[post]The way his hands had lurched up to grab her wrist and underneath her chin sent – mixed messages, maybe. There was a roughness in it, a forcible suggestion she should stop, as if everythin...
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November, 1894
Mr. Knight,
I write to congratulate you on your excellent skills of persuasion! and my own
That is to say, my father has today received your correspondence. You can of co...
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November, 1894
Mr. Knight,
I imagine I am not the first person to tell you that you are most charming. I had a lovely evening and enjoyed our conversation. But certainly I am not a young l...
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[post]Whether he was worried for her safety or simply trying to be rid of her, Mattie didn’t particularly care. She also didn’t much care what he was particularly thinking of – it could be drago...
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[post]He seemed of a like mind to her – or at least he was saying all the right things to persuade her. She didn’t know if this was gentlemanly ploy, to entrap a young lady into courtship by pro...
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[post]Oh, perhaps her sharper tone had actually brought him alive: for now his defensiveness had taken on a different tone, as if he might actually be offended by it, or actually likely to blush at he...
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[post]A translator. Perhaps for the Ministry, which was never a particular thrill – but a man who travelled was already more interesting and enviable than most. It was something of a pity to her...
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[post]She had not been a Ravenclaw for nothing – she would have been interested enough in his experiences of India from mere curiosity, even without that casual offer of perhaps taking her there...
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[post]She would have to keep Mr. Knight in mind for a rainy day and a better opportunity for some amusement, Mattie told herself. He seemed very much inclined to have fun.
So she would hardly mind...
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[post]Merlin, he seemed to be getting grumpier as they went on! Mattie had half-expected him to be begrudgingly charmed by her interest in him (she presumed this of most people), but he was proving a ...
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[post]Of course there were things she did with her time, but she nearly always grew bored of them. Though she was not yet bored of him, in spite of her impatience with small talk – and he knew t...
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[post]Mattie let out a laugh in agreement – although Miss Enid still seemed a little nervous, even now that her secret was out.
“Well, I suspect it isn’t Mr. Howell,” Mattie chimed in with a...
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[post]Mattie had never doubted herself, but she was pleased and a little smug to be in the finals – although more was the pity, because so was Iphigenia. She tossed Miss Adebayo an eyebrow raise...
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[post]Well, either her potion had been as exemplary as Healer Browne said, or her casual attentions had paid off. Mattie’s smile inched a little broader still.
But she was hardly content with how f...
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