Since the novel is told by Jemmy in first person (during his exile in the Netherlands), you can read all of it except for the epilogue without having to go through this gruesomeness, if it's a comfort.
Well, I suppose that's something :P :)
"Yes", sobs Mary, "but Madam, you were travelling to England, and I am leaving it!"
(Bless the Brits.)
Aww! And, yeah, lol!
(Reminder: James had gotten Anne Hyde pregnant, married her in secret, then denied having married her and/or wanted to take it back, with the recorded in Samuel Pepys' journal awful simile that a man doesn't put on a hat into which he has shat. Brother Charles did not let him get away with this, and James remained married to Anne Hyde, eventually producing Mary and Anne the younger, future Olivia Colman, with her.)
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Re: Absalom my nephew
Date: 2021-11-05 04:50 am (UTC)Well, I suppose that's something :P :)
"Yes", sobs Mary, "but Madam, you were travelling to England, and I am leaving it!"
(Bless the Brits.)
Aww! And, yeah, lol!
(Reminder: James had gotten Anne Hyde pregnant, married her in secret, then denied having married her and/or wanted to take it back, with the recorded in Samuel Pepys' journal awful simile that a man doesn't put on a hat into which he has shat. Brother Charles did not let him get away with this, and James remained married to Anne Hyde, eventually producing Mary and Anne the younger, future Olivia Colman, with her.)
Oh, yeeeeah. James :(