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''Present: All''<br><br><br> | ''Present: All''<br><br><br> | ||
− | ''' | + | '''Saturday, January 18, 1868'''<br> |
'''South side of the Thames'''<br> | '''South side of the Thames'''<br> | ||
'''Well after dark'''<br><br> | '''Well after dark'''<br><br> | ||
− | + | A night or two before the reception of the 20th. Dionysius goes undercover in an anarchist dive bar, the Princess of Schwienfort. Several of the bar’s regular anarchist patrons are there, including an Irishman by name of Riordon, Riordon’s brother who declines to give a name, and a Russian agent provocateur, Aleksandr Kazulin (now running on English soil with the name of Kristoff “Kozzie” Koziusco). Marius Jacob isn’t there as hoped but Jacob’s woman of the hour, appropriately named Doxie is there, striking up a conversation with the owner/bartender, the eponymous Princess of Schweinfort. And eponymous is warranted, since the woman behind the bar really is the deposed Princess of the small German kingdom and Napoleon was the agent of her exile.<br><br> | |
Beignet introduces himself to one and all as Dion, an anti-Napoleonic rabble rouser. The talk is all about class oppression, the unfair fate of the working man, the fat growing rich off the misery of the poor. What does anyone think of the upcoming reception with the Bonaparte nephews arriving up the Thames in an airship? Opinions fly around the room. The theme is rancorous, the emotions bitter. Napoleon left a lot of burnt bridges in his wake and the fact that England is hosting descendants of his is a very sore point with the patrons. The Princess bartender is cut to the quick over the loss of her ancestral home and the ogre busboy she has working for her comforts her—he’s very devoted to her.<br><br> | Beignet introduces himself to one and all as Dion, an anti-Napoleonic rabble rouser. The talk is all about class oppression, the unfair fate of the working man, the fat growing rich off the misery of the poor. What does anyone think of the upcoming reception with the Bonaparte nephews arriving up the Thames in an airship? Opinions fly around the room. The theme is rancorous, the emotions bitter. Napoleon left a lot of burnt bridges in his wake and the fact that England is hosting descendants of his is a very sore point with the patrons. The Princess bartender is cut to the quick over the loss of her ancestral home and the ogre busboy she has working for her comforts her—he’s very devoted to her.<br><br> |