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...Where will you go now?”“To finish it,” said The Stable Boy.************Where was he? Felicity looked at the jeweled watch upon her dressing table. It had been a full half hour since she had sent the footman to the stables.It had become increasingly unbearable for Felicity to see her husband and that doxy of a chambermaid canoodling in her house. He had vowed to be hers forevermore under the sight of God, Don Juan Jaime—the priest—and every scion of the local aristocracy!She couldn?...
...having read her master’s private poetry were overwhelmed by a rush of feeling: So he really was what she had suspected. His wife’s fury, the brooding, the sighing, the long weeps on the rug in the study ... Frederick was an artist.* * * The footman coughed nervously as Felicity swept past him into the villa’s lush gardens. She didn’t bother to look at him; she knew she had seduced him already. Had he been last month or the month before?It was so hard to keep track. She had slept...
...them started. It was intolerable.She saw Frederick there through the library window, urging his horse and a dozen hounds off into the forest. As his figure disappeared into the foliage, she rose and moved like a trapped starling to the door. Her novel, “The Accommodating Footman,” was left abandoned on the floor. Felicity would go to the stables and become undisguised and naked. She was mad for him, mad for the monumental pectorals straining beneath his suspenders.The yellow firmament above the vast courtyard was assuming an ominous gray. The play of moisture and heat...
...while the cakes are delicious, the appeal for regular clients is clearly in the service. Swallowtail gives otome a chance to act out their fantasies--say, to be a princess with a footman for teatime--but there may be something even more basic behind its success. Tokyo is a hard town, and it can be even harder for women. Under pressure to conform and marry--which often means surrendering much of their independence--they face a daily battle against the sexism that still pervades Japan, where fewer than 10% of corporate managers are female. The butler caf?...
...could get used to having a footman on call. Not long after I finished my Macbeth (is this a cream scone I see before me?), Saionji appears. "Mademoiselle, your coach awaits," he says to my dining companion--the signal that our 80 minutes are up. We step through the open door and flag down our coach on the Tokyo street...