"Baker, Kage - The Queen in the Hill" - читать интересную книгу автора (Baker Kage)

I found Lord Aegeus in Lady Maire's quarters, and they each had one of little Amelie's hands and were pacing carefully beside her as she toddled along, chatting together over her head like happy parents. He actually looked blank for a moment when I told him my news.
But then he was instantly sympathetic, clapping me on the shoulder and commending me for my careful attention to dear old Maeve, and telling me how grateful he was I'd made her last days comfortable. He swung the baby up in his arms and held out her dimpled hand to me. He said, "You must thank your Uncle Simeon, Amelie. He was a good friend to your biological mamma." And the child patted my cheek and smiled at me with an intelligence that was, maybe, just a bit more human than Maeve's. Lady Maire exclaimed, "Isn't the sweet thing clever!" And Lord Aegeus kissed Amelie between her wide eyes and agreed that she was the cleverest, most precious little girl in the whole world. I don't think he noticed when I left.
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I planted a rose bush to mark the grave. It wasn't one of the elegant ones the Lords and Ladies so love. It was a wild rose with a single-petaled flower. It bears many thorns, it is half bramble; but the perfume of its white roses is intense, though they bloom in an hour and the petals scarcely last a day.