illusion of being a queen
when two peremptory raps of
the knocker sounded at the
door and she opened it to a
well-groomed military officer
with ceremonious manners
who had a scar on his cheek
and a gold medal on his chest.
He closeted himself with her
father in the study. Two hours
later her father came to get
her in the sewing room. Get
your things together, he told
her. You have to take a long
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