A Fatal Likeness by Lynn Shepherd

Author:Lynn Shepherd [Shepherd, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery, Historical, Adult
ISBN: 9780345538673
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Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2013-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

He goes to the window and looks down into the street. Nancy is making her way up to the Strand through the snow, the market-basket over her arm. He turns back to the room. “You will speak openly even of those events you say you have striven to forget? Of Fanny’s death—and of Harriet’s?”

She flushes. “I cannot speak of what I did not witness.”

“But there were other events, were there not, that you did witness? Where your testimony would serve only to harm the man you say you loved?”

“I did love him; I love him still.”

“In that case I am only the more confounded.”

She rises from her chair and walks away. “I have no idea to what you refer.”

“I think you do, Miss Clairmont. I am speaking of the Shelleys’ first daughter. And how that baby died.”

She glances at him quickly, warily. “She died from convulsions, brought on by a fever. It is all too often so with infants born before their time.”

“That is true, and I know that was the story you all told. But it is not what you believed then, is it, Miss Clairmont? You thought Shelley was to blame. You thought he had risen in the night, in his sleep, and put his hands about his own daughter’s neck.”

She turns towards him. “And if I thought that,” she says slowly, “it is because Mary said so. Because your uncle confirmed it—”

“And that is what he, too, believed. But it was not so. Shelley thought himself guilty, but he was wronged. My uncle only discovered the truth years later—when it was too late. But whatever you supposed then—whatever you have written since—it was not so.”

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