You are both unfit for the company of gentlemen, and I must decline your further acquaintance.’ ‘Whereas, me and my boys will be having a very long talk with this pair of tosspots,’ Lady Wintour said, fizzing with wrath. ‘Cheating in my house! Get ’em, Ned.’ The oversized bully moved purposefully, grabbing Sir James’s collar with a huge hand. The Duke held up his hand commandingly. ‘Stop. I cannot countenance violent retribution, Lady Wintour.’ ‘Oh, come off it!’ Loxleigh said furiously. ‘Uh, that is—’ ‘No. I must decline to witness any such thing.’ Cassian gave it a couple of seconds, as Sir
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