She stalked off through the crowd, opening up a path for herself through sheer strength of personality. "Then go and get yourself a bloody drink, and don't come back till you've drunk it" Sometimes I think we're getting a little too inbred. You'd be surprised how many people forget that. Remember you have to lift the veil first, though. Just say the words, kiss the bride, and it'll be all over before you know it. "You've been through the rehearsals," said William reassuringly. Especially since William and Gerald kept explaining it to him. But he was old enough to understand politics and know his duty. One moment the Shrecks were a deadly enemy to be fought on every occasion, and now here he was marrying one. He was still trying to get used to how much his world had changed. He was average height, as fighting fit as years of military training could make him, and at seventeen old enough to marry, but not old enough to object to the marriage. Someone has to tell them the facts of life." Now, if you'll excuse me, I really ought to have a word with our nervous bride and groom. Personally, I wouldn't be without one, especially when it conies to picking up the tab. Husbands can be boring, irksome and a general pain in the ass, but you have to have one if you want to get on in society. Your father monopolizes your time far too much. "It's time you were looking for a husband for yourself, my dear. She looked back at Evangeline, who had to fight to keep from flinching. "Damn right you wouldn't," said Adrienne. "Gerald," said William, "go get Robert a drink." He didn't get out much, but he meant well, and occasionally surprised people with his firm grasp of politics. Fortunately William found numbers both more interesting and easier to deal with than people, so he was perfectly suited to the job. It was a job that couldn't be trusted to an outsider, but which most members usually avoided like the plague, on the grounds it was far too much like hard work, and if they'd wanted to work they wouldn't have been born an aristocrat. William Campbell was tall, thin and intense, and the bookkeeper of the Family.
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