It was in
fact the first embrace of motherhood she had ever known. He would be so disappointed. Look somewhere else in life. Bodies were piled high in the
streets, Sebastian went on rounds and would come back
late at night, reporting horrors and robberies, death that
came within hours, not days. ’
‘I like that,’ Gerald protested. ’
‘In a somewhat roundabout fashion, if you ask me,’ came in a mutter from her
old nurse, very much in her usual style. She did not open
the Bible but laid it on the edge of the bed, knelt and rested her forehead upon
the worn leather cover. ’
She seemed to recollect herself suddenly. ’
Gerald seized on this. His
shirt was unfastened, his vest unbuttoned, his hose ungartered; his feet were
stuck into a pair of pantoufles, his arms into a greasy flannel dressing-gown, his
head into a thrum-cap, the cap into a tie-periwig, and the wig into a gold-edged
hat. "
"You are offering your hand to me?"
"Without reservations.
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