The Prince’s Betrothed
Posted by Haron on 17 Oct 2007 at 09:26 am | Tagged as: Startles
I’ve been treating myself to some reading time on trains to and from London, and the book I’m enoying right now is “The Golden Fool” by Robin Hobb. It surprised me with a rather sweet scene at the start, where a prince’s bride is getting a talking-to from her uncle, while the main character listens in:
“Tonight you must be all grace and beauty and charm. Show yourself as the little spitfire that you are, and your pretty prince may decide to take a tamer bride. And you wouldn’t want that.” …
“Yes, I would.” Her response was instantaneous.
His reply was more measured. “No. You wouldn’t. Unless you’d like my belt across your backside as well?”
“No.” Her reply was so stiff that I immediately perceived his threat was not an idle one.
“No.” He made the word an agreement. “And I would not relish doing it. But you are my sister’s daughter, and I will not see the line of our mothers disgraced.”
As you can imagine, this passage rather got my attention on the train… Somehow I ended up re-reading it rather a lot.
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I love passages like that, too. But then I go hunting for more, and I forget the plot in the process!
Grace, beauty and charm used to be the province of finishing schools. This uncle figures that he can save the fees and instead use his belt across her backside. Well that’s another perspective!
I love passages like that too, but it’s frustrating because I want more details. I hope the prince spanks her when he finds out what a spitfire he married.