The Steel Beneath the Silk

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cat_on_the_shelf14 декабря 2025 г.
For a moment he could only stare at it, still unable to grasp the emormous reversal of fortine that had blindsided him.
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cat_on_the_shelf14 декабря 2025 г.
There are malignant forces working against you, over which you have no control.
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cat_on_the_shelf14 декабря 2025 г.
What a humiliating fate, to have gone from royal daughter to noble prisoner.
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cat_on_the_shelf14 декабря 2025 г.
None of them would see England again if he could not find some way through the stinking mire of misfortune and treachery that plagued him.
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cat_on_the_shelf14 декабря 2025 г.
Trouble can be avoided if you know where it is and what it is.
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cat_on_the_shelf14 декабря 2025 г.
He picked up his knife again, relieved that she was gone. He was discovering that the more time he spent with his wife, the more she wearied him.
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cat_on_the_shelf13 декабря 2025 г.
Athelstan looked toward the shore where the sun cast a golden light on the marsh reeds and grasses - on a kingdom that he could no longer claim, although by right of birth and heritage it should one day be his. The Danes had beaten and cowed the English into submission, and most of the great lords now regarded King Swein as England's ruler. Even in London, the city leaders had met with his father and begged him to seek refuge elsewhere. No one could blame them. Aethelred was now an outlaw in his own realm and should he remain in London he would draw disaster down upon the city.
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cat_on_the_shelf13 декабря 2025 г.
Years of planning and waiting, of aggravation and desperation were about to end.
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cat_on_the_shelf13 декабря 2025 г.
Had than been Swein's plan all along - to keep England for himself rather than deliver it to his son as he had promised? Suddenly, that seemed all too likely. What a fool she had been to trust him, to believe that Cnut would rule England and that she would be the queen at his side. As long as Swein lived, she would be nothing more than the wife of a second som who was king of nothing.
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cat_on_the_shelf13 декабря 2025 г.
There will be worse than this to come. But you must never show your fear.
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