Heyaa guyz!😃so me and my cute lil devil aka harini we both r going to start a new akdha ff: BEGIN AGAIN!!😳
AS THEIR ELEGANT
TRAVELLING CHAISE ROCKED AND
SWAYED along the rutted
country road, Shalini leaned
her cheek against her
husband's shoulder and heaved a long,
impatient sigh.
"Another whole hour until we arrive, and already the
suspense is positively
gnawing at me. I keep wondering what
Jo will be like now that
she's grown up."
She lapsed into silence
and gazed absently out the coach window at the lush, rolling
English countryside covered with wild pink Foxglove and yellow Buttercups,
trying to envision the niece she hadn't seen in almost
eleven years.She'll be pretty,
just as her mother was. And she'll have her mother's smile, her gentleness,
her sweet disposition ..."
Rohit cast a skeptical
glance at his wife. "Sweet
disposition?" he
echoed in amused disbelief. "That isn't what her
father said in his
letter."
As a diplomat attached
to the British Consulate in Paris, MR. Rohit was a master of hints, evasions,
innuendoes, and intrigues But in his personal life,
he preferred the refreshing alternative of blunt truth. "Allow
me to refresh your memory," he said, groping in his pockets and
retrieving the letter from Jo's father. He perched his spectacles
upon his nose, and ignoring his wife's grimace, he began to
read:'Jo's manners are
an outrage, her conduct is reprehensible. She is a willful hoyden
who is the despair of everyone she knows and an embarrassment to
me. I implore you to take her back to Paris with you, in the hope
that you may have more success with the stubborn chit than I
have had.' "Rohit chuckled.
"Show me where it says she's 'sweet-tempered.'" His wife shot him a
peevish glance. "bharmal is a cold, unfeeling man who
wouldn't recognize gentleness and goodness if Jo were made of nothing
else! Only think of the way he shouted at her and sent
her to her room right after my sister's funeral."Rohit recognized the
mutinous set of his wife's chin and put his arm around her shoulders
in a gesture of conciliation. "I'm no fonder of the man than you are,
but you must admit that, just having lost his young wife to an early
grave, to have his daughter accuse him, in front of fifty people,
of locking her mama in a box so she couldn't escape had to be rather
disconcerting."But Jo was
scarcely five years old!" Shalini protested heatedly.
Agreed. But bharmal
was grieving. Besides, as I recall, it was not for
that offense she was
banished to her room. It was later, when
everyone had gathered in
the drawing room- when she stamped her foot and threatened to
report us all to God if we didn't release her mama at once."shalini smiled. "What
spirit she had, Rohit. I thought for a moment her little freckles were
going to pop right off her nose. Admit it-she
was marvelous, and you thought
so too!"Well, yes," Rohit
agreed sheepishly. "I rather thought she was."
that's it fa today 😎so how was it guyz should we continue? all jootas,chappals,tomatoes,eggs r welcome😆
character sketch--coming soon...😉
with regards..
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