Pemberley to Waterloo: Georgiana Darcy's Diary, volume 2
“He is able to sit up and feed himself one-handed. And Harriet helps him with everything else.
Which should be such a happy ending to it all, even with the loss of his arm. But it really does seem that fate has a cruel sense of humour at times. Because even Colonel Forster's recovery is marred by the news we got the very same day Sergeant Kelly and I brought the colonel home. John Ayres is dead.
And there is no doubt about it, this time. We heard from another soldier in his regiment, a friend of... Captain Ayres who had been with him at the end. Captain Ayres had given the other man a gold watch that had been his father's, and asked that it be brought to Kitty. It was his last request before he died.
Ever since, Kitty has gone about like someone sleepwalking. I have not seen her cry. Instead she changes bandages and writes letters for the wounded men and goes out to do the day's shopping with an absolutely expressionless face and a hard, bleak look in her eyes.MoreLess
Which should be such a happy ending to it all, even with the loss of his arm. But it really does seem that fate has a cruel sense of humour at times. Because even Colonel Forster's recovery is marred by the news we got the very same day Sergeant Kelly and I brought the colonel home. John Ayres is dead.
And there is no doubt about it, this time. We heard from another soldier in his regiment, a friend of... Captain Ayres who had been with him at the end. Captain Ayres had given the other man a gold watch that had been his father's, and asked that it be brought to Kitty. It was his last request before he died.
Ever since, Kitty has gone about like someone sleepwalking. I have not seen her cry. Instead she changes bandages and writes letters for the wounded men and goes out to do the day's shopping with an absolutely expressionless face and a hard, bleak look in her eyes.MoreLess
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