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Miss Carlyle and the King’s Brother by Ellajane2255 for WolfjawsWriter, Flames and Fairy Tales (Flames_and_Fairy_Tales)
Fandoms: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud
31 Dec 2024
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Tales had been told in every parlour, inn, and assembly room in England of the daring bravery of the heroic Duke of Portland as he faced the hordes of the villainous Napoleon. And now, having seen his evil foe defeated at Leipzig and forced into humiliating exile on Elba, he had returned to London in triumph, like a modern-day Julius Caesar.
His uniform was cut from vivid red wool, crossed with thick gold braid and shining buttons and gleaming medals. He wore tall Hessian boots of black leather, and stark white breeches. A polished sabre in its scabbard hung at his left hip. Far from being outshone by the uniform, as so many men were, he seemed to have been created to wear such a uniform.
Instead of an officer's bicorn hat, he wore a simple gold coronet.
Lucy had never seen a portrait of Anthony Lockwood, the Duke of Portland, but something within her confirmed his identity beyond doubt.