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Название книги: Lord John and the Private Matter
Автор(ы): Diana Gabaldon
Жанр: Исторические приключения
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Lord John and Private Matter

by


Diana Gabaldon



To Margaret Scott Gabaldon and Kay Fears Watkins,



my children’s wonderful grandmothers




Chapter 1
When First We Practice

to Deceive

London, June 1757



The Society for the Appreciation of



the English Beefsteak, a Gentlemen’s Club

It was the sort of thing one hopes momentarily that one has not really seen—because life would be so much more convenient if one hadn’t.
The thing was scarcely shocking in itself; Lord John Grey had seen worse, could see worse now, merely by stepping out of the Beefsteak into the street. The flower girl who’d sold him a bunch of violets on his way into the club had had a half-healed gash on the back of her hand, crusted and oozing. The doorman, a veteran of
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