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Название книги: Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
Автор(ы): Diana Gabaldon
Жанр: Исторические приключения
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Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade

by

Diana Gabaldon


CONTENTS


This book is for Barbara Schnell,



my dear friend and German voice







Chapter 1








All in the Family




London, January 1758



The Society for Appreciation of



the English Beefsteak, A Gentlemen’s Club


To the best of Lord John Grey’s knowledge, stepmothers as depicted in fiction tended to be venal, evil, cunning, homicidal, and occasionally cannibalistic. Stepfathers, by contrast, seemed negligible, if not completely innocuous.
“Squire Allworthy, do you think?” he said to his brother. “Or Claudius?”
Hal stood restlessly twirling the c