A Mother's Courage
“In her fevered mind, it was the angel of death who dragged the perambulator and its tiny occupants through the portals of the institution. Eloise stifled a low moan of pain and she fell to her knees on the wet pavement, burying her face in her hands.
How long she knelt there on the cold paving stones she did not know. She seemed to have entered a nether world; a strange place where nothing was real. Her cramped limbs, hunger and thirst were as nothing compared to the agony of having given her b...abies into the hands of strangers. There was a painful void where her heart had once been and she wrapped her arms about herself, rocking to and fro in her despair. A chill mist had crept in from the river without Eloise even noticing it, and the sky had lightened to a grey dawn. The measured tread of booted feet caused her to look up, and through eyes blurred with tears she found herself looking into the stern face of a police constable. 'Move along now, miss, or I'll arrest you for being drunk and disorderly.' Automatically, her hand flew to her dishevelled hair.MoreLess
How long she knelt there on the cold paving stones she did not know. She seemed to have entered a nether world; a strange place where nothing was real. Her cramped limbs, hunger and thirst were as nothing compared to the agony of having given her b...abies into the hands of strangers. There was a painful void where her heart had once been and she wrapped her arms about herself, rocking to and fro in her despair. A chill mist had crept in from the river without Eloise even noticing it, and the sky had lightened to a grey dawn. The measured tread of booted feet caused her to look up, and through eyes blurred with tears she found herself looking into the stern face of a police constable. 'Move along now, miss, or I'll arrest you for being drunk and disorderly.' Automatically, her hand flew to her dishevelled hair.MoreLess
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