” He turned hard eyes toward her. ain, she told her son Hendrik, 'It will be your job to care for these fields when your grandfather and your father are no longer here. “Listen, I don’t know what you’re talking about. ” He stopped combing and slid his hands down her arms.
He might have been tempted to be unpleasant with Annatjie, for she was both older and plainer than he; fifty-o But Dougless had never been able to conceal her true feelings. “This was my brother’s chamber, and I was here but a fortnight ago,” he said softly, then shrugged as though to block the regret from his mind. With the extinction of Marquis de Caix's title, distant female relatives hadsold off thevineyardsand the De Pr~s had acquired some of the choicest fields.
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