Accidents of Providence
“A few days before Christmas, John Lilburne shooed a blinking Elizabeth out of the bed at half past four; he needed the upstairs to himself. She stumbled down to the kitchen, too bleary to quarrel.
John crowned himself with his stocking cap and sat at his desk, which overlooked an alley. Cracking his knuckles prepared him to do his best work. He dipped his quill in the well, blotted the tip, and poised the instrument over a blank sheet of parchment, waiting for inspiration to drip.
Fifteen minut...es passed. Beneath the window, a scavenger was scratching through a pile of onion peels and eggshells. The sound resembled a rat behind a wall. John reached under his desk and cracked his toes, one by one. He dipped the quill a second time and prepared to compose his concluding sentences.
John had resolved to set aside his personal opinions in the matter of Rachel Lockyer. What he thought of the woman was one thing. What he wrote about her was something else. He planned to turn her death into something edifying, to transform her into a martyr of the people, as he had done for her brother, Robert.MoreLess
John crowned himself with his stocking cap and sat at his desk, which overlooked an alley. Cracking his knuckles prepared him to do his best work. He dipped his quill in the well, blotted the tip, and poised the instrument over a blank sheet of parchment, waiting for inspiration to drip.
Fifteen minut...es passed. Beneath the window, a scavenger was scratching through a pile of onion peels and eggshells. The sound resembled a rat behind a wall. John reached under his desk and cracked his toes, one by one. He dipped the quill a second time and prepared to compose his concluding sentences.
John had resolved to set aside his personal opinions in the matter of Rachel Lockyer. What he thought of the woman was one thing. What he wrote about her was something else. He planned to turn her death into something edifying, to transform her into a martyr of the people, as he had done for her brother, Robert.MoreLess
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