On August 5th, under stormy skies, Penelope, dressed in yards of silver satin and lace, walked towards the church with her father. Penelope hugged her goat, tears of happiness streaming down her face. “Sorry, could hold her no longer,” Jimmy called. The heated kiss was broken only when Lady Bathsheba came bounding up. The duke wasted not a second longer and gathered her in his arms. Lady Bathsheba thumped her tail enthusiastically on the ground. The bandits, burglars, pickpockets, plunderers … all fifteen of them, along with Mrs Jimmy Grey, exploded in cheers. Only a duke in love would do that, Charles.” “How can I not? You took lessons from Madame on how to woo me, brought my beloved pet, and dressed up as a highwayman, deer stealer, and a burglar of some note. “You want be kissed, do you?” He paused, and then continued in a more serious tone, “You do know that I love you?” The duke frowned and then his face lit up. “And if I hear you call me ‘Your Grace’ again, I will kiss you.
“An endearing nuisance,” he replied promptly.
“Your grace,” she said turning her face away, “I will be a nuisance as a duchess.” She refused to tell me why you had left, but she did give me lessons on how to woo you back.” The next day I finally tracked Madame down and she confessed that she had you safe at Lockwood. Perkins gave me my breakfast in bed and I absently made the tea in a sugar pot and drank it. I had half of the Bow Street Runners searching for you. He sighed and stood up, “Remember Madame had told me that the thought of losing my love would make me tremble in dread? Penelope, I trembled when you were missing. She wanted to believe him with all her heart, but the niggling doubt at the back of her mind refused to go away. “You are certain that this time it is love?” she asked. How could I have overlooked such an important fact? You love me and my blasted knee is killing me, so hurry up and tell me if you will marry me?” he finished softly. When Jimmy said you were willing to take the bullet for me, I smacked my head.
I was outside listening to everything you had to say. “I begged Jimmy to ask you why you had left and he agreed.
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