Cupids (2010)
“I turn from the sound, drawing the blanket around me, shivering not so much from the ice splinters reaching through the walls as from the prickle of wool. I am in some unknown darkness between the opposite extremes of terror and excitement. But, then again, are they opposites? Like the two contrary directions of a hoop, they seem to emerge as one and the same. The flame inside me teases every fear and expectation. I can hardly tell pleasure from pain, fear from anticipation.
No one made clear t...he relevance of the visits several days ago, least of all Bartholomew. But I know that the sudden shift of Mr. Guy’s interest from Mr. Egret to his late brother’s wife, the visits from the old gentlemen and the judge who acts as the family notary, surely all point to the information I gave to Bartholomew that night in front of the dockside fire. All these things could only mark some change in financial fortunes. Should I be in fear of the stocks for betraying my master’s confidence? I hear the whoosh of his cane once more; feel the stab of the metal against my mother’s skull.MoreLess
No one made clear t...he relevance of the visits several days ago, least of all Bartholomew. But I know that the sudden shift of Mr. Guy’s interest from Mr. Egret to his late brother’s wife, the visits from the old gentlemen and the judge who acts as the family notary, surely all point to the information I gave to Bartholomew that night in front of the dockside fire. All these things could only mark some change in financial fortunes. Should I be in fear of the stocks for betraying my master’s confidence? I hear the whoosh of his cane once more; feel the stab of the metal against my mother’s skull.MoreLess
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