Lily Fairchild. Don Gutteridge
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Название: Lily Fairchild
Автор: Don Gutteridge
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Историческое фэнтези
isbn: 9781925993714
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Two weeks then passed with no reply from Bridie. She understood why her Aunt had chosen not to write before the birth of the child, but fully expected a response to her terrible news. Lily began to feel that something momentous was about to happen, though she was uncertain whether it would be happy or sad. The talisman was strangely silent, as if it had already spoken on the subject and was surprised that Lily was not able to interpret the obvious.
Lily was about to suggest to Mrs. Edgeworth that she ought to return home as soon as possible when she experienced a slight haemorrhage and was put back to bed with stern warnings. However, in the late afternoon she persuaded Lucille to help her into the wicker wheelchair and push her into the garden, where she sat by the rose arbour in the westering sun, pondering her predicament. What am I doing here? she thought. I want only to belong to some place, to someone besides myself. The young man inside the Prince’s suit was not the one, clearly, but they had created a child together. And what has it come to? What did it bring? “My word, look who it is!” Mrs. Edgeworth’s voice cracked with some of its former zest. “Lucille, come here quick! Tippy’s coming up the walk!”
There was a scurry in the household behind Lily. She turned away, letting the sun warm the nape of her neck. Between female greetings and excited exclamations came the rumble of a man’s response. For a while all was quiet within. Lily grew strangely tense, the hairs on her neck rose. Her heart pitched without reason. She heard the slap of the screen door, the steady step, the coolness of the shadow blotting out the light behind her. She turned in her chair to face the silhouette framed by the setting sun.
“Tom,” she said, steadying her voice.
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