A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles, Book 4 by L'Engle Madeleine

Author:L'Engle, Madeleine [L'Engle, Madeleine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2008-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

Seven

I woke up early the next morning, with the summer sun pouring across my bed and my eyes. I looked at my watch. Not yet six. Nobody’d be stirring for another hour.

I pulled my writing things from under the bed, dressed, and slipped quietly down the ladder.

The house was silent. No sound from the big four-poster bed where my parents were sleeping. No sound from the hospital bed in Grandfather’s study. If he was awake he would be either reading or meditating.

Rochester rose from his battered red rug at the foot of the ladder, stretched, and followed me. Sunlight streamed across the kitchen. I wanted to write something for Ynid. I stared across the porch to the blinding early-morning light bursting across the sea. A sonnet. A sonnet for Ynid and her baby.

Ynid couldn’t read. But Jeb Nutteley could, and Adam, if I wrote something I dared give them.

I stopped thinking about Dr. Nutteley and Adam and focused on the poem. It came swiftly, with lots of quick crossings-out, as new words, new lines pushed aside what I had first written down.

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