Word: frederickã
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...Having emptied herself of this immutable truth, Felicity slumped forward, gasping for air. Frederick??s eyes glazed in incomprehension. Roxanna’s expressed mute astonishment. The Stable Boy stepped down from the chair into the center of the room. He stood against the sunbeam from the window, the light so bright that his form was almost silhouetted against it. With his arms crossed across his chest and a malevolent smile setting his face gloriously ablaze, he seemed to hover just an inch above the carpet...
...Stable Boy leaned in towards Frederick??s ashen face, his voice now tinged with a vindictive hiss. “Sophie used to change your soiled bedsheets. She used to bring you eggs at breakfast. But when little Frederick??s disgusting little wishes had all been seen to, then she was free to sneak off to the study, where your father was waiting in all his decrepitudinous lust...
...great staircase. In the gray din below, she thought she saw a thread of golden hair. It disappeared, and then she saw her imbecile of a husband running in the same direction. He must not reach Roxanna! Felicity hurled the burning torch down the stairs at Frederick??s feet. Frederick shrieked and jumped back as a line of fire sprung up before...
...could not ignore the manor. Still, images of Frederick??he had surely perished by now!—swam before her eyes. She wanted to weep for the loss of her love, but could only tremble at the awfulness of her and Frederick??s sin. Fire had cleansed him of his guilt; he would suffer no longer, knowing that the euphoria they had felt had not been sent from on high but from the fiery pits below. But she would continue wandering this world, scrubbing pots in others’ kitchens, emptying chamber pots in others?...
...knock at the door, and Roxanna leapt up, ready to greet Frederick with the basket of fresh biscuits she had made for him that morning. “Come in, my love!” she called.It was Felicity.“Oh look,” Frederick??s wife sneered. “A strumpet with crumpets.”Felicity rushed forward, grabbed the basket of biscuits, and started throwing them at Roxanna. Her aim was impressive. “Harlot!” she spat out, as each biscuit thunked against Roxanna?...