A Rebel Among Redcoats: A Revolutionary War Novel

A Rebel Among Redcoats: A Revolutionary War Novel — page 3
I spent much of the summer at my Aunt Kate’s house She made me suffer through social events and afternoon tea determined to teach me to be a proper lady She felt it was her responsibility I was as she put it a motherless orphan I’m not an orphan at all I’d exclaim louder than a proper lady should I have Father Aunt Kate would sigh Exactly my point Margaret My mother died shortly after I was born so I never knew her Kate my mother’s sister was a wealthy young widow with no children of her own We were a perfect match or so it seemed I loved her I truly did but her constant nagging was tiring Last summer I’d turned thirteen and Aunt Kate was more persistent than ever I spent hours in her drawing room learning to stitch and to curtsy Like a royal lady Kate told me Royal lady I’d spat Soon we shall be free of the British and their royal ways Kate shrugged Dear mercy she said the ideas