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From the work:
" “This Season has started at least since a week now. How can it only be the first ballet? I’m in agony.”
“Behave, Mike.”
“Mycroft is the name you and father gave me.”
His mother – Violet Holmes, respectable widower of Viscount Edmund Holmes, dressed up entirely for the occasion – sighs. [...]
He leaves his mother when it’s socially acceptable and he sees at the end of the room a pair of friendly faces: Lord and Lady Smallwood, an old couple with a lovely interest for Latin literature. He escapes a mother with her daughter – Lady Hooper, if he remembers right – when he bumps into someone. A woman of his age. [...]
“I am sorry.” [...]
“I’m talking with…”
He tries to speed up the formalities, and she exclaims:
“Lady Moriarty, Earl Moriarty’s daughter. You have surely heard about me before.” [...]
“I don’t read the Whistledown.”
He replies, quick, as if his moral integrity depends on it. [...]
“And what do you read, my Lord? Locke, Aristotle, and all the things you think are above us present there?” "
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Or also: a story about desire, feelings' abruptness and second chances to life in a Brigerton (TV)-like world.