The Art of Deception 38

The Art of Deception

or Pride and Extreme Prejudice

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This week continues a spy story set in late Georgian England, the year before Trafalgar. Last time things came to an unseemly head on the floor of the assembly.

In the morning, Sally and her fiancé, Mr Mapleton strolled together in the lower Avonside garden, “Alice said she’d meet us here; I can’t believe she would be so rude, as cold as she was last night.”

“It certainly was unlike her; I suppose she’s jealous of us.”

“Even so, we were the best of friends; it was almost the cut direct; has she grown so high and mighty as to forget mere gentleman’s daughters?”

A servant girl approached them and curtsied, “Ma’am?”

“Yes, what is it?” Sally struggled to keep the annoyance from her voice; it wasn’t this poor maid’s fault that she’d had words with her former best friend last night.

“Ma’am, I was told to give you this,” She gave Sally a folded letter, “It’s from my mistress.”

Sally snatched it and broke the seal, “It’s for me; you may go.”

The maid stayed.

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My apologies for creative punctuation.

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Most of us don’t have servants (indeed many of our ancestors were servants). So one thing we tend to not appreciate is their ubiquity. A maid could go anywhere without much comment. They saw things that “polite society” would miss. Rather useful for a spy, don’t you think?

Like poor Cecelia, ” The Curious Profession of Dr Craven” is back from the dead.

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Author: rharrisonauthor

International man of mystery. Well not really, although I can mangle several languages and even read the occasional hieroglyphic. A computer scientist, an author and one of the very few people who has both an NIH grant and had a book contract. An ex- booktrope author and a photographer.

17 thoughts on “The Art of Deception 38”

  6. Hm, I wonder if the maid expects a reply, or is supposed to report on the reaction to the message. You’re definitely right about servants being generally inconspicuous.

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