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Feuilly's new commission has rather shuffled around his usual schedule. The man wants it as soon as possible, so--as soon as possible Feuilly will have it. But it's an ambitious project for him. And ambitious means research. Lots of reference material. Reclining nudes. Reclining nudes with their faces turned away to show the curve of the neck. And boudoirs. Artistic lady's boudoirs.

Really, though, by the time you're sitting there trying to figure out how necks work, much of the eroticism has worn off. Or at least gotten pushed well out of the way. He fills some pages with sketches of naked ladies--and sketches of beds, painted screens, birdcages--then pats Hector on the head and calls it a reasonable day's work.

Off to grab a practice sword and fence a bit with Harry.

Date: 2015-08-13 11:16 pm (UTC)
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After the events of the morning, Harry decided that it might be wisest if he restricted his company to that of mammals that couldn't talk for the rest of the day. Well, at least until his usual time to practice with Feuilly. For that, he's brought his own practice sword, which Feuilly might spot laid on top of Harry's doublet outside of the stables before he sees Harry (down to his shirtsleeves, Feuilly is well free of nudes still, never fear) inside them, having some conference with Duncan.

Date: 2015-08-13 11:29 pm (UTC)
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Harry laughs. "Nay, thou'rt not."

He gives Duncan a last pat and turns to Feuilly. "How art thou?"

Harry looks-- well, like someone has finally seen fit to punch him in the nose. That, combined with how early he woke to go encounter Eric, gives a generally lightly bruised sort of look to his whole face, though he seems cheerful enough in spite of it. Not high-spirited certainly, but-- pleased to see Feuilly.

Date: 2015-08-13 11:42 pm (UTC)
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It takes him a moment to realize what Feuilly is referring to, then with an "o!" of recognition, he brings his hand gently to his own face.

"No, 'twas not he," he says. "This was my recompense for some ill-advised speech."

Date: 2015-08-13 11:47 pm (UTC)
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"--Lesgle." He looks sheepish. He is aware it is generally considered a bad thing to get in a fist fight with your friend's friend.

Date: 2015-08-14 12:05 am (UTC)
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Harry blinks. "--thy friend? He that hath no hair. Lesgle. Laigle."

Date: 2015-08-14 12:20 am (UTC)
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"--I will own he was provoked to no small degree," Harry says. "And I greatly vexed, and weary, and spoke unthinkingly. But any man may be weary, and may be provoked, and so we were-- but we are but men."

He seems to genuinely mean this: tempers are lost, things are said, they reached an accord between them so now it's done.

Date: 2015-08-14 12:34 am (UTC)
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"Well, I know not that," Harry says with a shrug. "I can only say 'tis so."

He frowns. "Sure if I were to lie, I would not choose out thy friend as subject of my falsehood. Truly, I am much vexed I cannot better accord with thy friends, I heartily would 'twere otherwise, but-- why, so it is, and so it was, and so it went. I know not what more to say."
Edited Date: 2015-08-14 12:34 am (UTC)

Date: 2015-08-14 12:49 am (UTC)
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Harry laughs. "A war? It shall not be. We parted friends-- I had better say, we parted peacefully, for I think we shall never make a friendship between us. We did but fall to quarreling over the drink I had of him some weeks past. He did invoke his honor as a bartender, I said such a thing could not be called upon, for it does not exist. He did then insult my sense and knighthood, I his standing as a gentleman, and--" He shrugs, which in this instance presumably stands for and then blows were exchanged.

Date: 2015-08-14 11:11 am (UTC)
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Harry blinks. As Feuilly sets down his sword, he leans back against the nearest stall door. Evidently they're going to have a conversation now, though he can't say he's sure what about.

"Why, I cannot remember it all," he says (oh look, there's the point sailing past-- no, he missed it).

Date: 2015-08-14 11:22 am (UTC)
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He makes a faint noise of impatience. "Ay, something of the sort. I tell thee, I do not-- I was in an ill temper, and marked not what I said. He cares not, why shouldst thou?"

...but he can tell already that's not going to be good enough.

"He said a tapster's honor was greater than a knight's, and did throw down his dish-clout as if 'twere a gage, and asked me what would I do. I took at up and said were he a gentleman, I would answer him in kind-- he said his father was, but he did disown his father's gentle blood, and I said this was the answer of a scoundrel and a bastard, and-- and 'twas then he struck me, for the which I think he cannot be much blamed."
Edited Date: 2015-08-14 11:23 am (UTC)

Date: 2015-08-14 11:42 am (UTC)
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"I do not doubt, and so I said: I cannot begrudge the blow, 'twas well-earned by my speech."

But Feuilly's amendment brings him up short, and he frowns. "I own that I-- that in my fits of temper, I do not always speak as I ought."

There's an understatement.

Date: 2015-08-14 12:10 pm (UTC)
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"I--"

It's plain from his startled expression that Feuilly and his background and his trade did not enter into Harry's thoughts at all. Not that this should come as a shock.

"Why, I did not speak of thee," he says. "It cannot be claimed words uttered in anger, in quarrel with another man, a man that did slight me and so I in turn slighted him, can have aught to do with thee."

Date: 2015-08-14 12:29 pm (UTC)
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Harry has gone a bit pink.

"And what am I to think of him, that says a knight's honor is good for naught but spilling blood?" he says, some heat in his tone now. "He was well enough pleased to make his peace with me, and I with him. Harry Monmouth-- Harry Monmouth--" Is about the last person he wants to even think about on top of the events of the past few days. "I had rather see a tradesman and a bastard claim the title of a prince than that dissolute drunkard-- 'tis true I like not what he says, but I like less what he has done. A man born a-- a peasant may die in his country's cause, and in that death he will buy a prince's honor. And Monmouth, born a duke's son and a king's cousin, made a prince by murder and a soldier by fancy-- he, I hold in contempt. A man who does nothing, respects nothing, has won no honor. And he a prince! I have known common soldiers of ten times his nobility."

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