The Duke Hadn’t Laughed Since the War

a pension,” he said, “enough to live on. He will leave quietly, and there will be no prosecution. Because the harm he intended to the estate, he now undid himself. And the harm he did me…” He paused. “…the harm he did me he cannot repair, and I find I do not want to spend years watching him try.”

The mercy of it was reasoned aloud, not performed, arriving continue reading …