After leaving Lady Isadora, Elizabeth went to her room to fetch her pelisse and the small pistol that her father had given her to protect herself.
‘I do not think you will have cause to use it,’ Sir Edwin had told her when he taught her to shoot straight as a young girl. ‘But it is possible, Elizabeth. You like to walk alone and I would not have you afraid—but if you should be attacked, shoot the rogue and be damned to the consequences!’
Happy early Father's Day to Sir "be damned the consequences!" Edwin
A good Regency father, if there ever was one!
ReplyDeleteHe did turn out to be a gambler semi involved with the Hellfire Club, so I caught the moment of glory before flame out ðŸ˜
DeleteI shouldn't laugh, but yeah, of course he did--"be damned the consequences!" makes a lot more sense now.
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