The Mazarin Stone: A Pretty Little Thing

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Mazarin Stone: A Pretty Little Thing
Author: gardnerhill                        
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary:  Not just the wax bust, apparently.

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“By your leave, madame…” The count stuttered. He stared at the dame, her parasol forgotten.

Sylvius knew women. Before him was strength and courage, a defiance in grey eyes that outshone her homely face. Such women, young middling or old, were tigers in the boudoir.

“Might I see you later?” he said silkenly.

Startlement. Panic. Then a smile. “Why, yes.”

Comments

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I love how flustered Holmes gets ^__^ It's just something he hadn't anticipated - that someone might find this persona attractive. It makes me think of WIST - there can't possibly be a love intrigue going on, because the lady is 40. An endearing lack of information in Holmes's personal database.

And this good taste in attraction humanises Sylvius a little too ^__^

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

There may be snow on the roof...

Love the idea of Sylvius being an equal-opportunity womaniser.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Heh, heh. The baggy parasol enchants the villain so much he stops twirling his moustache--maybe he won't tie her to the railroad tracks!!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Is that ...a dowager's hump? Come here, you hot mama!

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Holmes you missed an opportunity there!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

"Holmes, you didn't!"

"Now Watson, it was only three dates and he was a perfect gentleman the entire time."

[debriswoman]

Fascinating:-)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

I thought so, too.

[sanguinity]

Hahahaha! Oh, goodness. :-D

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

It's gonna break his heart when Holmes finally busts him after the third date.

[sanguinity]

Welp, we all get our kicks in different ways, don't we? Perhaps when it happens he'll discover he has a new kink, and it'll be a happy ending for all anyhow. :-)