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They toasted to the occasion by heading to the Bladebone Inn for champagne.

“You always hear, ‘This field has been done to death, what else is there left?’ ” said author Ausma Zehanat Khan, whose book “The Bladebone,” the final installment of her Khorasan Archives fantasy series, is due out in October.

You see, he was struck from above; the wound is just behind the shoulderbone, and it has gone right down inside the bladebone, but has missed the lungs altogether—at least, we think so.

Martin Fidler, 60, who runs Bladebone butchers in Chapel Row said he "jumped through the ceiling with joy" when he and his wife, also 60, received the invitation from Buckingham Palace.

To tell you my mind frankly, I don't think they know much about gunshot wounds abroad; for I remember when I hit Giles Eyre, the bullet went through his chest and came out under the bladebone, and Dr. Purden just stopped up the hole with a pitch-plaster, and gave him a tumbler of weak punch, and he was about again, as fresh as ever, in a week's time.