A Lovely Day to Die (2014)
“And then the fear into outright terror, and the recognition of approaching tragedy?
Twisting the bedside lamp to a sharper angle, Agnes leaned closer, watching the uneasy twitching of her husband’s eyelids over his closed eyes. In the dim greenish light the lines appeared sharply etched in the face sunk against the pillows, and he looked suddenly, terrifyingly old. But of course illness—serious illness—can do that to a person, even within a few hours.
How many hours? Glancing at Lady Ol...ivia’s bedside clock—for it was to their hostess’s bedroom that Bert had been carried, amid a muted turmoil of well-bred dismay, after his collapse at the dinner table just as the veal paupiettes were being served—glancing at the clock, Agnes noted, with a sort of slow incredulity, that it was still only a little after nine. Less than an hour had passed since Bert, glass of white wine still in his hand, had brought to a standstill in mid-sentence the amusing anecdote he had been relating to his neighbour, the local M.P.’s wife, and had quietly slewed sideways in his chair and come crashing to the floor, dragging with him a great swathe of shining linen tablecloth.MoreLess
Twisting the bedside lamp to a sharper angle, Agnes leaned closer, watching the uneasy twitching of her husband’s eyelids over his closed eyes. In the dim greenish light the lines appeared sharply etched in the face sunk against the pillows, and he looked suddenly, terrifyingly old. But of course illness—serious illness—can do that to a person, even within a few hours.
How many hours? Glancing at Lady Ol...ivia’s bedside clock—for it was to their hostess’s bedroom that Bert had been carried, amid a muted turmoil of well-bred dismay, after his collapse at the dinner table just as the veal paupiettes were being served—glancing at the clock, Agnes noted, with a sort of slow incredulity, that it was still only a little after nine. Less than an hour had passed since Bert, glass of white wine still in his hand, had brought to a standstill in mid-sentence the amusing anecdote he had been relating to his neighbour, the local M.P.’s wife, and had quietly slewed sideways in his chair and come crashing to the floor, dragging with him a great swathe of shining linen tablecloth.MoreLess
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