❛ 𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐄.

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[❛ 𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐄. @wasthejust]

He suspiciously regards her for a few more moments, pondering, until the irritated flush has finally faded from cheeks.

Slowly, he picks up the present.

❝… Thank you,❞ he murmurs, glancing at the object and then awkwardly stuffing it under his arm.

[❛ 𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐄. @wasthejust]

@wasvaliant Waiting. His favourite pastime.

[❛ 𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐄. @wasthejust]

… @wasvaliant is courting whomst the deuce now?

[❛ 𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐄. @wasthejust]

❝Polite, by handing me a book of manners?! Do you not think I am lectured enough on what I’m supposed to every day?❞

He’s rather incredulous, glaring.
❝With an older brother such as yours I ironically expected 𝒚𝒐𝒖 of all people to understand.❞

[❛ 𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐄. @wasthejust]

… Is Miss Penelope laughing at them or what did he just hear.

[❛ 𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐄. @wasthejust]

I don’t know why I left my bed.

[❛ 𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐄. @wasthejust]

…Oh, are they exchanging presents now.

He slams his book shut, aggressively plucks a red rose, and pins it to her swan-hairdo, proclaiming loudly for all promenades to hear what a 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒂𝒅𝒚 she is.

[❛ 𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐄. @wasthejust]

He feels truly sorry for her suffering.

So why again must be suffer with her right now?

[❛ 𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐄. @wasthejust]

@RADICALLYELOISE // I live for their bickering

[❛ 𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐄. @wasthejust]

The swan on her head, or whatever creature the feathers in her hair are supposed to resemble, contradict his view on the pond.

Would she mind?

[❛ 𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐄. @wasthejust]

She realises the two concepts contradict one another?!

[❛ 𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐄. @wasthejust]

And Eloise, as we all know, is the epitome of grace and politeness.

[❛ 𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐄. @wasthejust]

Is this a complaint or a compliment?

… She regards me as though I would eat you alive the moment she closed her eyes to blink.

[‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍ ‍* ‍ ‍ ‍𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗱 @wasthelost]

you're very demanding .

how wonderful that i didn't hire her for her needlework then .

[narnia quote bot @narniaquotebot]

Yeah, they're the eldest and we're the youngest. We don't matter as much.

[❛ 𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐄. @wasthejust]

// “who tf” but make it ✨regency✨, lmao

[❛ 𝐄𝐃𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐄. @wasthejust]

There’s a small bouquet of bedewed asphodels on @wasgentle’s nightstand.

A note reads in his unmistakable scrawl:

❝Dear Sister, I plucked them myself and got bit by a defensive beetle. Please accept my penance for having no mercy on your poor nerves the other day.❞