Upon Your Return
she murmured absently, suddenly captivated by his eyes again.
“And you, Mademoiselle Bellamont?”
“My name is Fara.” Her mother had named her, had claimed it was English for 'lovely, beautiful, or fair'. In Arabic, it supposedly meant ‘joy’ and ‘happiness’. No one knew this except her mother and father. She supposed most people could guess it wasn't a French name, like Capitaine Hill's. But she refrained from telling anyone because she knew how odd the French acted about origins. If one wasn't entirely French in every way, there was something low about it. It was a narrow-minded and proud society.
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