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Post by Valmont on Apr 22, 2009 12:08:55 GMT -5
The carriage would be warmer, and have a blanket inside, and Valmont would not begrudge her it because his aim was not humiliation. He even handed her up, for in one sense Valmont was so entrenched in class divisions that simple courtesy--when he bowed to it--could hardly dislodge him, and in another she was a fetching thing in a thin chemise and there was no harm at all in being mildly polite as one's other plans were forming.
((I think we're done here?))
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Miranda
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Post by Miranda on Apr 22, 2009 16:25:53 GMT -5
Miranda, while she would not have considered herself bound by class, would have indeed have been surprised had she viewed herself from an objective standpoint - because Miranda would, had she still been in her dress, and perhaps if she had had her gloves on, and so forth, never have pulled her legs up onto a carriage seat and wrapped herself up in a blanket to doze, no matter what sort of trauma she thought she'd been through (and Miranda did not think she had been through any trauma). She might have thought she looked like a little savage, hardly fitting her own class, her parents' standards, her headmistress', and perhaps she'd have understood Valmont's opinion a little better. But she was very tired, and fell asleep rather swiftly.
((I think so. I wish the thread had been longer, alas! But isn't he going to deposit her with his housekeeper? I suppose they won't meet much, although she could always serve something in the Desire thread, I suppose, depending on when that's taking place.))
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Post by Valmont on Apr 22, 2009 16:45:24 GMT -5
Valmont's opinion was, of course, partially formed by the fact that Notre Dame had orchestrated this and therefore on some level it was out of his hands. It perhaps only amounted to a nudge, but it did mean that he was not altogether dismissive of the suddenly very tiny figure curled up opposite him in the carriage. And though the words "be good" floated through his mind (he snorted lightly in response to the memory) he assured himself that his hands remaining decidedly on his side of the carriage was his own decision, with very good reasoning behind it.
What it would probably amount to in the future was the likelihood that he'd notice her a little more often than his other maids, and not in an obtrusive, unpleasant way. He would be unaware of this, of course, but Miranda would not entirely fade into the wallpaper.
When they got home, Valmont descended from the carriage, instructing the butler that the girl was to be put under the housekeeper's care and command. The Valmont house was not the worst of places to work, if one must serve others, for despite his appetite and reputation Valmont was no more cruel to those under him than most other aristocrats.
((We ought to figure something out. I just am having trouble with how Valmont is to interact with her, but I'm sure we can come up with something. And I don't really care when the Desire thing is happening in relation to this, and may well be after, as it might be good to establish Miranda's position in the house before Valerie comes.))
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Post by Miranda on Apr 23, 2009 14:23:45 GMT -5
((Well, we can work something out for after the Desire scene and perhaps Miranda can talk to him about that. Or something. She's bound to pick up on things concerning Desire more quickly than he is.
But after I get back! I'm sneaking on before having to go to the library. Two and a half hours of research, after having spent forty minutes of practicing dance, that's not so poor.))
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