Part 2: Georgie And The Dragon
Summer, 1814
"We're going to have to sell the sword."
Three identical gasps filled the room.
Georgiana Burns looked into the shocked eyes of her younger brother and sisters and shrugged. "I'm sorry. But Papa's replacement will be here in a week, so we have to vacate the vicarage. We've nowhere else to go, and grandfather's sword is the only thing we have of sufficient value to sustain us."
Mama's few pieces of jewelry wouldn't fetch nearly enough, and could be put to better use when the time came to find husbands for her sisters. But the sword - now that would lease them a cottage, clothe and feed all four of them, and still see to Richard's education.
"But that sword belonged to St. George himself," Ella protested, looking up through the lenses of he
