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Day Nineteen
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The party was marred only once, and at a point when the guests had had enough Vorkosigan wine that they could laugh it off. Aral's cousin Padma and Ges's two younger brothers Yves and Patrice, all decidedly wending their way through the goofy stages of boyhood, decided to set off firecrackers under the chairs occupied by the stodgiest guests at the event -- though some underdeveloped sense of self-preservation kept them away from targeting either Count Vorrutyer or Count Vorkosigan. Their prank caused the elderly Countess Vorhalas to faint, luckily not dead away. The boys scampered out of the room with a trail of Armsmen chasing after them. The Countess recovered, but not so quickly as to miss getting fussed over, and the party went on.
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:-D I like that!
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This puts me at 59.4%, which means I'm still about a day behind and the weekend's coming to an end. But I'm reasonably happy with what I've written, and I have caught up a fair bit.
Lytella leaned over to her. “This is the Leon whose caused all that fuss. You know. Thrashed Adosco in a duel, placed the feather, servant humiliated Tavel.”
So this is what he looks like. Good thing my daughter isn’t here. Just the type for that silly day-dreaming fool. Massetta had plans for her daughter, and they did not include some nobody from a minor kingdom.
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Excerpt of the day:
"Ah, I see." Cortz compared Harln's evasive answers with the impression the earlier reports had given. "And where were the guard when the Ch'feng marched in? Why did they not advise him against it? Why did they not pull back when the crowd became angry?"
"The Ch'feng is an obstinate man."
And you are a very poor liar, Cortz thought.
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She did not expect to be served wine, knowing the autarch's opinion of women drinking, but to her surprise Polykratos mixed a draught in a lovely red-figured bowl and offered it to her.
Or, to adopt the reverse counting method, 1779 words to go...
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