Lord Perry Cavendish stood on the summit of the hill and gazed down at the rolling patchwork of the Buckinghamshire countryside below him. Not that you could really call this tame little slope a hill—not in Perry’s opinion. Where he came from, they’d scoff at the idea that this landscape might be regarded as anything […]
Thursday, 1 st August, 1822 The Advocates’ Library, Parliament House, Edinburgh, Scotland David Lauriston wasn’t so immersed in his reading of Viscount Stair’s Institutions that he didn’t notice how stiff his neck had grown from bending over the massive volume, but he kept reading anyway. “The Af ection of the Property and Chastity of Women, […]
2nd April 1853 Roscarrock House, Porthkennack The new mare was as fine a horse as Nick had ever seen. Proud and lovely with her dapple-grey coat, ivory mane, and delicate, high-stepping legs. “What do you think of her?” old Godfrey asked, without looking at Nick. He leaned over the paddock fence, his eyes on the […]
