Название: Figures in Silk
Автор: Vanora Bennett
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Историческая литература
isbn: 9780007283545
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It took Isabel what seemed like hours to drag it out of her sister, in a welter of embarrassment and euphemism. Will Shore had never beaten his wife, or neglected her (except for his ledgers), or been cruel in any worse way than to bore her. But he couldn’t perform the act of love. ‘We’ve never… never… you know,’ Jane muttered, and Isabel first nodded, then shook her head, with the smell of Thomas’s body suddenly filling her nostrils. She shut her mind to it; pursed her lips to keep memory away. Jane was giggling in what sounded like girlish embarrassment.
The four-year age gap between them used to mean that Jane always seemed grown-up and sophisticated to Isabel, whatever she did. But when Isabel heard that pretty tinkle of a laugh she suddenly felt older than her elder sister. Jane didn’t seem to know the meaning of pain. A divorce would publicly shame Will Shore forever, Isabel thought. She hardly knew him, but he seemed harmless enough: skinny and hard-working and dull. And she could just imagine Katherine Dore and Agnes Brundyssch’s response to the gossip. The delight. The catcalls. The gestures. He’d be destroyed.
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