A Fatal Likeness (ARC) by Shepherd Lynn

Author:Shepherd, Lynn [Shepherd, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9780345532442
Publisher: Delacorte
Published: 2013-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

Anyone else would have pitied him then. Had I not known what this man had done, I too might have pitied him. But I did not. I held the knife, I knew the wound, and I twisted the blade with all the savagery in my power.

“I saw her,” he stammered, when I had finished. “Two days ago. She wrote to me asking me to meet her off the London coach. She said—she promised—that she was on her way to Dublin. That her aunts had relented—that she looked forward to happiness at last. But her voice was quivering as she said the words—”

His voice broke then, and he buried his head in his hands, weeping uncontrollably that he had not known, that she had never said, not expressly, and that the whole world was not wide enough to contain his misery. Not now. I was on the point of berating him yet further—of telling him what heedless hurt he caused to all the women unfortunate enough to encounter him—all those other young women he induced to love him, be he aware of it or not—when he suddenly gave out a piercing cry and fell to the floor, his body racked by fearful spasms. The landlady was upon us in an instant, terrified at the sight, but I had seen those fits of his before; I knew they always supervened at some moment of sudden shock or high-wrought feeling, and never led to the fatal consequences the landlady clearly apprehended. I likewise suspected—though I have voiced the thought only once, and to no avail—that Shelley was not above simulating such attacks, as a means to divert attention from whatever culpability might otherwise have attached itself, at those moments, to him. I instructed the landlady, therefore, that he should merely be put to bed in one of the rooms upstairs and the doctor sent for in due course, should the symptoms not abate.

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