{"id":26996,"date":"2026-05-09T08:58:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=26996"},"modified":"2026-05-10T09:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:09:13","slug":"a-broken-vessel-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/26996","title":{"rendered":"A Broken Vessel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A Broken Vessel<\/em> (1994) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/rossk.php\">Kate Ross<\/a> (Julian Kestrel Mysteries #2)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Broken-Vessel.jpg?resize=183%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Broken Vessel\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7368\" \/>Set in London in 1824<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what there is to thank me for. Did you expect I should throw her into the street?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, sir, I knew you\u2019d treat her uncommon fine. That\u2019s why I sneaked her in when I thought you was out\u2014so as not to take advantage.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>She got a firm grip on Sally\u2019s hand and led her away. Sally looked back, mutely appealing for rescue. Julian and Dipper smiled and shrugged, in a stunning display of male helplessness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe require them to confess their sins, as the first step toward repentance. Then they must submit to a regimen of hard work, prayer, and penitence. We impose the strictest discipline. Only by learning to conquer their wicked appetites and impulses can they regain some shred of the character they\u2019ve thrown away.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There\u2019s no charity in her\u2014only hatred and fanaticism and resentment. Hers is the kind of spirit that drove the Inquisition.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Harcourt then questioned her closely about how she fell from grace. She was hard put to answer. She could not remember a moment when she fell. She had been born about as low as a girl could get, and simply went on from there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Characters<\/strong>: Mr. Julian Kestrel, Dipper \/ Thomas Stokes, Sally Stokes, Dr. MacGregor, Mrs. Mabbitt, Charles Avondale, Lawrence Birkett, Lady Gayheart, Ada Grantham, Mrs. Grantham, , Mr. Samuel Digby, Mrs. Digby, Peter Vance, Sir Richard Birnie, Toby, Emily Wickham, Major Thorndike, Lord Braxton, Mary \/ Lady Lucinda Braxton, Reverend Mr. Gideon Harcourt, Mrs. Ellen Fiske, Mr. Matthew Fiske, Caleb Fiske \/ Mr. Joseph Rawdon, Mrs. Jessop, Miss Nettleton, Margaret Muldoon \/ Wideawake Peg, Florrie Ames, Bess, Nancy, Red Jane, Anne Price, Megan MacGowan, Rosemary, Nathan Winters<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Felony &#038; Mayhem<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Broken Vessel (1994) Kate Ross (Julian Kestrel Mysteries #2) Set in London in 1824 \u201cI don\u2019t know what there is to thank me for. Did you expect I should throw her into the street?\u201d \u201cNo, sir, I knew you\u2019d treat her uncommon fine. That\u2019s why I sneaked her in when I thought you was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[191,30,292,33,8,41],"tags":[514,365,655],"class_list":["post-26996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-5-10","category-british","category-ebook","category-historical","category-mystery","category-reread","tag-julian-kestrel","tag-kate-ross","tag-violence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-71q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1709,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1709","url_meta":{"origin":26996,"position":0},"title":"A Broken Vessel","author":"Michelle","date":"May 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A Broken Vessel (1994) Kate Ross Continuing my effort to lift my mood, I read the second Julian Kestrel book, A Broken Vessel.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;9\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"9\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/9-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5105,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/5105","url_meta":{"origin":26996,"position":1},"title":"A Broken Vessel","author":"Michelle","date":"February 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A Broken Vessel (1994) Kate Ross The second Julian Kestrel mystery. 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His head smashed in with a poker while one of his famous parties rages upstairs. But Alex is the darling of the ton (it took me awhile to figure this one out; the ton is the bon ton,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/Whom-Gods-Love.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1707,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/1707","url_meta":{"origin":26996,"position":5},"title":"Cut to the Quick","author":"Michelle","date":"May 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Cut to the Quick (1993) Kate Ross Amazing how reading--and rereading--an excellent book can lift one's mood. 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