She has excellent motor skills.

China has ratcheted up its standard gunboat diplomacy—the repeated warnings that it would use force if necessary to unite the island and mainland—more than a month before Taiwanese voters go to the polls.

Meltenham and her mother had prepared her for marriage in an entirely Victorian spirit. The day before she left home, Lady Plunkwell had delivered her final advice: I know, my dear, it's disgusting. But do as I did with Edward: just close your eyes and think of England! Like her mother and her mother's mother before her, Ursula closed her eyes. She thought of the future of England.

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