Sunday 3 November 2024

Day Three

There wasn't much changed, or at least I didn't notice anything--but then I'd never spent a lot of time in Vere House, and Georgian furniture and paintings of views are very much of a muchness, so they might have changed everything and it would still look the same to me.

The only real change I noticed was a huge portrait in the hall of King and Queen of Herzoslovakia, a handsome blond couple who looked no different from English aristocrats except for their peculiarly ugly Eastern regalia; but then the Queen was English, and the King had been passing himself off as an Englishmen for years while he waited for the Republic that had murdered his parents to fall, so it stands to reason.

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