Tess (2013)
“Especially here: in England; and especially in Dorset, where Maiden Castle and Pilsdon Pen, as you have heard tell, were invaded by the Romans and the women raped and murdered like so many sheep by the invading troops.
First – as you have seen – the Celts were overcome by Caesar’s army. And not without a great struggle and extraordinary courage on the part of the women. Boudicca, eager for instructions as to which direction to go in search of her enemy, released a hare from her skirts as augury....
As you, Tess, my sister Tess, did one evening after ratting in the barn at Fred Bowditch’s until the very last light – and then running across the fields – to find Alec had stoned a hare and captured it and it sat blind and bleeding on the ground beside him.
You gathered it up in your arms – I was there with you, Tess – and it seemed to lean back on you for a moment like a baby.
Then, suddenly, as you knelt and the hare was lifted tenderly into the folds of your skirt, the creature darted off.MoreLess
First – as you have seen – the Celts were overcome by Caesar’s army. And not without a great struggle and extraordinary courage on the part of the women. Boudicca, eager for instructions as to which direction to go in search of her enemy, released a hare from her skirts as augury....
As you, Tess, my sister Tess, did one evening after ratting in the barn at Fred Bowditch’s until the very last light – and then running across the fields – to find Alec had stoned a hare and captured it and it sat blind and bleeding on the ground beside him.
You gathered it up in your arms – I was there with you, Tess – and it seemed to lean back on you for a moment like a baby.
Then, suddenly, as you knelt and the hare was lifted tenderly into the folds of your skirt, the creature darted off.MoreLess
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